Race & Ethnicity

The most challenging issue for me with regard to my work is the barriers to communication created by prejudice and fear, particularly within my own ethnic group.

"So what are you, anyway?" — It's a question I dread. I'm third generation Syrian-American, and there are reasons why I've never been vocal about it.

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts has organized a series of concerts, workshops, and educational programs centered around the life of Octavius Catto.

About 6 percent of the nation’s physicians are African American; while about 13 percent of the population is black. Many experts s ...

Plans to honor a Philadelphia civil rights champion with a statue are getting a boost now that the city will pay for one quarter of the cost. 

Octavius Catto was, in his day, as known for his civil rights activism as was Frederick Douglass.