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Race & Ethnicity

Halal food cart in New York. (Tupungato)
Community

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

8 years ago

Blackstar organizers Meg Onli, Patrice Worthy, Maori Karmael Homes, Nehad Khader, and Denise Beek in front of an artwork by Jade Montserrat at the Institute for Contemporary Art. Blackstar highlights the work of black filmmakers from around the world. (Credit: Jen Kinney)
Things To Do
Arts & Entertainment

Blackstar Film Festival, in its seventh year, keeps expanding the mainstream

The festival showcases films that may be difficult to find in mainstream theaters.

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announces the formation of the Institute for the Contemporary African American Experience at Cheyney University. He is joined by (from left) Cheyney University President Aaron Walton and Charles S. Smith, Chairman of the Epcot Crenshaw Corporation, a partner in the Institute.
Education

Cheyney 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.

8 years ago

WHYY reporter Annette John-Hall interviews Deborah Plant, editor of
Community

‘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.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon”

Guests: Deborah Plant, Autumn Womack, Johnnie Hobbes Jr. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo ...

Air Date: July 31, 2018 10:00 am

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NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 30, 2018

Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s Attorneys General try to block 3-D guns from being downloaded in their states. Shanita Hubbard discus ...

Air Date: July 30, 2018

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Black Lives Matter protestors march south on Broad Street during a protest in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 26, 2016, during the second day of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

To make black lives matter, protect those lives from the womb to the tomb

We are all responsible for standing up for the sanctity of black lives. Because while so many of us are doing great work to sustain black lives, all of us have to do more.

8 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 26, 2018

Two longtime New Jersey radio hosts are now apologizing for their racist comments about the state’s attorney general. One hundred ...

Air Date: July 26, 2018

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Bufus Outlaw, 93, (right) and Theodore Jackson, 83, hang out in Outlaw's garage in Gray's Ferry. Although they weren't alive for the 1918 riots, they have seen the results ripple through their neighborhood to the present.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

A 1918 ‘race war’ and its ties to Philadelphia’s present

Stop and frisk. Changing demographics. A fishy police shooting. Inside a 1918 race riot in Grays Ferry and its parallels to the present.

8 years ago

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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Community

Suspended N.J. radio hosts apologize for calling state attorney general ‘turban man’

A New Jersey radio station has taken two hosts off the air after they called the state’s attorney general, a practicing Sikh, “turban man.”

8 years ago

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In this May 7, 2018 photo, Philadelphia 76ers' co-owner Michael Rubin, center, talks with rappers Lil Uzi Vert, left, and Meek Mill during the first half of Game 4 of an NBA basketball second-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Courts & Law

Sports apparel company with Philly tie accused of racial discrimination

The federal complaint accuses the company of harassing and retaliating against a longtime employee because he is black — and favoring white employees over black employees.

8 years ago

Karen Korematsu  addressed a group of teachers about her father's legal battle against internment during World War II. Her talk was given at the nonpartisan Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Spreading the legacy of Fred Korematsu, U.S. internment camp objector

Japanese-American's case referenced in U.S. Supreme Court opinion allowing President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several Muslim-majority countries

8 years ago

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Miami Dolphins players kneel during the national anthem before their game against the Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium on Nov. 13, 2017, in Charlotte, N.C. (Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

NFL, players agree to temporarily halt enforcement of anthem protest rules

The new league policy requiring athletes and staff to "stand and show respect for the flag and the Anthem" on the field was announced in May.

8 years ago

A screengrab of a cellphone video of the arrest of a Philly teen after Zoo security called the police earlier this month (Facebook)
Community

Following arrest of black teen at Philly Zoo, staff rules under review

Video of the incident went viral. It was seen as another example of the over-policing of black youths and the misuse of law enforcement by white people.

8 years ago

Special education teacher Ben Slater describes his Father's Day at Dorney Park, where he was detained by security guards who accused him of stealing, then banned from the park for six months.
Keystone Crossroads
Community

Through personal experience, Philly educators teach about racial profiling

In Philadelphia, panel members tell their stories and plan to collect more accounts of racial profiling for a book.

8 years ago

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