Race & Ethnicity

A white Philadelphia prisons official has sued the city for discrimination, saying city officials passed him over in favor of a less-experienced black woman.

School district officials in Coatesville held a special meeting where they got an earful from students and parents about recent racist events that rocked the high school.

A new study suggests that African-American women are more likely to suffer from Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and are more likely to worsen before getting better.

The NAACP has decided to hire its interim leader, Derrick Johnson, as its 19th president and CEO.

Since opening seven years ago Las Americas ASPIRA has become a magnet for parents who wants their children to speak Spanish and English.

The Vietnam War impacted much more than its name implies. For people like my parents, we don’t talk about it. Like the American public, we’ve just accepted what’s been said.

Farming is the second-whitest job in the United States.

In 2016, African-Americans were eight times more likely to be arrested for possessing marijuana than their white counterparts, despite using the drug at similar rates.

This poem was originally published in "Khmer Girl" (RJ Communications, 2014), and is dedicated to women and the Vietnamese people.

Ken Burns' "The Vietnam War" reminds me yet again why it is so vital for refugees to tell our stories in our own words and on our own terms.

When Amazon builds its new headquarters in some lucky city, diversity issues could be part of the bargain. At least, if things go like they did in Seattle.

Does standing up for racial justice, economic equity, compassion, or truth demand, at crucial moments, that we plant one shoe on the earth and lower the other knee?

As Monday mornings often go, I woke up after one too many "snoozes" of my alarm clock. Still half-asleep, I opened Facebook. Two words were everywhere: Las Vegas.

A group of religious and civil rights leaders are calling on Delaware to enact change after a study showed significant racial and gender issues at the Dept. of Transportation.

When Otis Hackney, Philadelphia’s Chief Education Officer, was in Amsterdam this spring he happened upon an exhibit detailing the h ...