Race & Ethnicity

For doctors and patients of color, navigating a healthcare system which favors white people can be challenging and, sometimes, dangerous.

Over the last several years, Cheyney University has struggled to stay afloat. Now, it looks like it has a recovery plan. Will it survive and what's at stake for students?

I watched with interest as Democrats targeted freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar—a Muslim who came to America as a Somalian refugee—as the new face of anti-Semitism.

Throughout his life, here and in his native country, Philip Jaisohn was a champion of Korean independence and social equality.

A local prevention-navigation supervisor says the drug “has not been marketed to women, to African-American women, as a priority.”

Students have spent two months preparing for their biggest performance of the year: ceili dancing for tens of thousands and a live TV audience.

“Vessels,” a premiere work this weekend at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia, imagines how captured African women might have survived the Middle Passage.

Ojibwe writer David Treuer talks about his new book, "Heartbeat at Wounded Knee," a history of Native Americans starting at with the 1890 massacre,

EcoWURD is a multimedia environmental justice journalism initiative exploring the intersection of race, income & the environment.

Sens. Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders are gathered at one of America's seminal civil rights sites on Sunday to pay homage to that legacy.

James Hart Stern wants to use his new position as director and president of the National Socialist Movement to undermine the Detroit-based group.

Maori Karmael Holmes, who began the BlackStar Film Festival, wanted to provide a film festival for black creators in Philadelphia. It quickly became much bigger.

Some Philadelphia filmmakers say it’s an exciting time to be a person of color in the industry because Hollywood finally seems to be addressing calls for diversity.

To mark Transit Equity Day, Philadelphians remembered Octavius Catto and his push to integrate city streetcars in 1867. They also gathered ideas for making today’s SEPTA more

When it comes to adoption, Americans might assume that each child is treated equally. But research shows that darker-skinned children are repeatedly discriminated against.