
Race & Ethnicity
What will Trump presidency mean for the New American Indian Movement
On April 1, 2016, the centuries-old struggle for the rights of indigenous Americans witnessed a new dawn. On t ...
9 years ago
For minority communities, Trump’s election reopens old wounds caused by bigotry
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 ...
9 years ago
After the election, America has political fractures to heal
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 ...
9 years ago
Divisiveness in queer spaces undermines work of change-makers on front lines
Recently, I was honored to receive the Charlene J. Arcila Lifetime Achievement Award from GALAEI, a ...
9 years ago
Charter schools build leaders the NAACP should support
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 ...
9 years ago
Philly celebrates Octavius Catto who was assassinated on Election Day 1871 [photos]
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.
9 years ago
ListenDon’t trick yourself into thinking Gayborhood racism is new
Watching recent protests in the Gayborhood has brought on a strong case of déjà vu for me.
9 years ago
Why Gayborhood racism isn’t just on Darryl DePiano
After the video of club owner Darryl DePiano using the n-word surfaced, he has become the de facto example of Gayborhood racism, ...
9 years ago
‘Truth and reconciliation’ through police transparency in the Black Lives Matter era
A remarkable series of transparency victories in policing has occurred in Chicago over the last year, victories that can inform the gener ...
9 years ago
When the chef is better off ordering Chinese take-out
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?
9 years ago
Report finds students of color shortchanged by Pa. school funding
Critics call the analysis "spin."
9 years ago
Listen 5:45Jerry Pinkney’s illustrated world, an escape from a nation in conflict
To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.
9 years ago
ListenHeading toward change from impossible heartache
The week that Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were shot down was one of the most emotionally draining weeks for me, my black communit ...
9 years ago
Report: Thousands of pedestrian stops by Philly police illegal, racially biased
A third of the hundreds of thousands of pedestrian stops Philadelphia police officers conducted last year were done so illegally. More th ...
9 years ago
Listen 4:00What we talk about when we talk about community policing
NewsWorks hosted a public forum on Nov. 17 about the relationship between the police and the communities they serve by asking: What should the future of policing look like?
10 years ago