Race & Ethnicity
Four African-American composers go to church with Bernstein’s ‘Mass’
A Baptist church in West Philadelphia will premiere new music by four African-American composers working in the vein of Leonard Bernstein.
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Guests: Perry Bacon Jr. American’s political affiliations are generally a good indicator of how people vote but ...
Air Date: August 10, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 31:57The long road to becoming Pa.’s first black-owned brewery
This weekend, Pittsburgh is slated to host the first festival of black craft beer brewers from around the country.
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Listen 5:08Guests: Michelle Saahene, Melissa DePino MICHELLE S ...
Air Date: August 9, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 31:59Radio hosts suspended for slur against Sikh AG return to air
The hosts of a popular New Jersey radio show suspended for calling the nation's first Sikh attorney general "turban man" are back on the air.
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Majority of black Americans value social media for amplifying lesser-known issues
A new Pew study found that 8 in 10 black Americans value the platforms for magnifying issues that aren't usually discussed.
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New HBO series debuts at Blackstar Film Festival in Philly
Terence Nance, a New York experimental filmmaker with a long history with the Blackstar Film Festival in Philadelphia, chose the festival to launch his new HBO series.
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Listen 2:49Implicit in tackling racial biases, an expert says: Knowing the history
It comes after a hotel staff member wrote a three-letter slur against those of Japanese ancestry on a hotel guest’s room folio last week.
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Young boys admit to hanging doll at Weccacoe Playground
Police are investigating an apparent hate crime at a South Philly playground where neighbors organized to honor a historic African-American burial ground.
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Ruth Naomi Floyd, ‘Frederick Douglass Jazz Works,’ and our need for free critical artists
Floyd could have been this generation’s Ella or Mahalia. But she has taken the A Train on a track less traveled — and Douglass is her latest companion on that journey.
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For many Muslim grocery shoppers, a shifting definition of ‘halal’
While conducting research for our book, “Halal Food: A History,” we found that more and more Muslims are looking at ethical and health considerations
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Blackstar Film Festival, in its seventh year, keeps expanding the mainstream
The festival showcases films that may be difficult to find in mainstream theaters.
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Listen 5:06Cheyney University launches two institutes as part of school’s reinvention
After facing several years of falling enrollment and financial instability, Cheyney University is looking to remake itself by playing to its strengths.
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‘Barracoon’ spurs a long-overdue conversation about last known slave-ship survivor
"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" one of the only surviving first-person accounts of the transatlantic slave trade, was published in May.
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