Race & Ethnicity

Well-intentioned people have been looking for ways to help those who are feeling the weight of racism, islamophobia, misogyny, and other oppressions.

It is ironic that the 30th anniversary of “In the Life, ...

Many of us who want to make a rescue animal part of the family have experienced the flip-side to the problem of abandoned pets: foster gr ...

The word “sanctuary” conjures images of safety, freedom, and protection. It’s something the City of Brotherly Love has ...

On April 1, 2016, the centuries-old struggle for the rights of indigenous Americans witnessed a new dawn. On t ...

On a mild Tuesday night eight years and one week ago, I took a road trip from Detroit to Chicago. I was a 29-year-old graduate student ...

I spent last week in Washington, D.C., a place that, depending on which way you swing, is either a roiling swamp of dysfunction or a glea ...

Recently, I was honored to receive the Charlene J. Arcila Lifetime Achievement Award from GALAEI, a ...

I graduated from a West Philadelphia high school that’s a charter school. Now in college, I also work at a charter school that’s focu ...

To mark the last day voters can register in Pennsylvania, the mayor of Philadelphia joined a discussion about a little-known civil rights activist from the 19th century.

Watching recent protests in the Gayborhood has brought on a strong case of déjà vu for me.

After the video of club owner Darryl DePiano using the n-word surfaced, he has become the de facto example of Gayborhood racism, ...

A remarkable series of transparency victories in policing has occurred in Chicago over the last year, victories that can inform the gener ...

When Mrs. Smithson asked me to cook them "an authentic Chinese dinner," I couldn't say no. How could I tell them that I was almost 23 but had never learned to boil water?

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