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Race & Ethnicity

Punk band Night Raid performs at Johnny Brenda's for the first annual YallaPunk Festival in Philadelphia. (Emily Cohen for WHYY)
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At YallaPunk Festival, young Arab Americans throw off stereotypes

Rana Fayez conceived of the YallaPunk Festival after a frustrating interaction with another m ...

8 years ago

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Education

Local youth poet honored for work exploring African and African-American identity

So how does a local kid become one of the nation’s top youth poets? In Juliet Lubwama’s case, the journey started with ...

8 years ago

 A tour group is shown walking through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
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Education

Inclusive admission won’t hurt white students, but it will make your university better

Students of color have earned the right to be on any campus they set foot on, and their colleges and universities are better off for having them.

8 years ago

Fourth grader Sirvat Labiba (center) in class at Crescent Town Elementary School in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Ian Willms/For Keystone Crossroads)
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Part Two: Ontario celebrates diversity, but still works to close achievement gaps

Part two of our Ontario series

8 years ago

Keystone Crossroads
Education

Part Three: How one Berlin school integrated by segregating

Part Three of our Berlin series

8 years ago

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Community

New Castle County playground is latest area hit with racist graffiti

New Castle County police officers want to know who would spread hate at a children’s playground with racist graffiti. On Thu ...

8 years ago

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Education

Bryn Mawr College scrubs name of founder with racist views

A private college in suburban Philadelphia says it will remove references to the name of one of its founders in printed and other materia ...

8 years ago

Elijah Clay stands outside the Deliverance Evangelistic Church in North Philadelphia, where he works and studies theology.
Courts & Law

Running while black? In Abington, minor case sparks major debate over racial profiling

“They were looking to target a black male, and they didn’t care if they had the right one or not,” said Asa Khalif, an organizer for Black Lives Matter.

8 years ago

 New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a political ally of President Donald Trump, says the president's statements blaming
Politics & Policy

Christie raps Trump for blaming Charlottesville violence on ‘both sides’

President Donald Trump’s comments that both sides were equally responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, were a mi ...

8 years ago

 In this file photo, students get help from their parents as they move into their dorm rooms on the first floor of Virginia Tech's West Ambler-Johnson dormitory in Blacksburg, Va., Aug. 15, 2007. (Christina O'Connor/AP Photo, file)
Education

Criticisms of American college life split on party lines, Gallup poll shows

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup’s Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. o ...

8 years ago

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Education

Red Clay forms equity panel to address racial disparities

Red Clay Consolidated School District has created a committee to review and change “practices related to racial equity.” ...

8 years ago

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Courts & Law

Suspect arrested for painting ‘black power’ on Rizzo statue

Updated: 10:30 a.m. Philadelphia police have arrested a man suspected of spray-painting the phrase “black power ...

8 years ago

 Marchers gather at Broad and Green Streets for the Philly is Charlottesville march Wednesday evening. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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On ‘Radio Times’: How to counter the hate after Charlottesville

Thousands of ...

8 years ago

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Lifestyle

Women talk justice, wellness, and products at Kinks, Locks & Twists Conference

For black women, hair — and everything it connotes — can be a political act. How hair intersects with social justice and other issue ...

8 years ago

A counter demonstrator uses a lighted spray can agains an Alt Right demonstrator at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017.
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Politics & Policy

Antifa needs a new way to fight the Alt-Right

Antifa and the conservative media attention it draws raises questions about the effectiveness of militant tactics in organized efforts to challenge the violence of fascism.

8 years ago

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