Race & Ethnicity

Guest: Imani Perry Lorraine Hansberry was far ahead of her time as a playwright and social justice advocate. At j ...

In response to the protest, the International Olympic Committee stripped Carlos and Smith of their gold medals.

About 10 years before Mike Matthews was president of the Delaware teachers union, he was an irreverent blogger.

Another focus of the conference will be on continuing to press for legalizing marijuana to end well-documented patterns of racially biased enforcement.

Breast cancer is less common in black women, yet they're about 40 percent more likely to die from it than are white women.

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Black residents of Langhorne long suspected that there were enslaved and freed Africans and African-Americans buried on the grounds of Middletown Friends.

A film documents the work and adventure of African American astrophysicists.

A drop in the poverty rate for Black Philadelphians reported in recent census estimates has been met with skepticism.

Philadelphia's first Project NorthStar conference will run Oct. 3 to Oct. 5.

"If we're going to talk about poverty, we have to address racial disparities."

Some parents of kids in city schools firmly in favor of the police presence.

Group organizers push for stronger community ties to help bring an end to the rampant gunfire that claims victims almost daily.

Artist John Dowell mixes personal memory and American history in his surreal vision of cotton, now at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.