Race & Ethnicity

The exhibition at the African American Museum in Philadelphia continues through April 29.

A new study that builds on the Kerner Report's work was released this week.

It’s the young people who are creating the movements.

A lot of black people are in a space where we have the spirit, the soul, and all that it takes to override oppression, but it means nothing if we don’t believe it.

Black people have always had to project themselves into the future because of the reality of their present. Even today, it takes some cognitive dissonance not to be enraged.

I am an educator because I choose to invest in the future of blackness.

I sometimes wish I could stop talking about race, just for a day. It gets exhausting. I shouldn’t have to defend my race on a daily basis.

It’s the responsibility of people like me to keep looking for people like him to make those chance encounters more than just shouting matches on the street.

The lasting legacy of 18 men who endured the hardships of the middle passage, slavery, and the Civil War to create a future that offered more opportunities than their past.

Civil disobedience is our obligation, not our right. If we do not stand up, ignorance wins. As long as we feel inequality, we cannot say that we live in a post-racial society.

Journalist and storyteller Sofiya Ballin says her identity series “Black History Untold” is more than a black history project.

One of Philadelphia’s lesser known visionaries just became a little more visible.

Nearly 50 people gathered at the West Philly Library on 52nd Street to talk about mental health in the black community.

Never has a Hollywood blockbuster film captured Africa and her people in such rich, layered, multitudinous ways.