Race & Ethnicity
Cities declare racism a health crisis, but some doubt impact
“We know our pain is questioned and our pain is not real to them,” said Christy DeGallerie, who later started a group for Black COVID-19 survivors.
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Twitter announces changes to image cropping amid bias concern
Twitter is making changes to how preview photos are cropped after users raised concerns that the site's algorithm was showing preferences for white faces over Black ones.
4 years ago
‘When Women Lost the Vote’: Philly museum tells the forgotten stories of Revolutionary N.J.
The Museum of the American Revolution’s new exhibit, “When Women Lost the Vote,” explores when women and free people of color were legally entitled to vote in New Jersey.
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Stand back, Proud Boys. Philadelphia is stronger than you.
Philadelphia sent its own powerful message of joyful unity and powerful protest to the far-right fascist group last month.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month: New virtual program addresses racial disparities
Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) has rolled out a virtual online series designed to address racial health disparities.
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Wells Fargo CEO Charlie Scharf blamed the lack of diversity at the nation’s third-largest bank on “a very limited pool of Black talent to recruit from” in corporate America.
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Asian American nonprofits get low share of Philly’s COVID relief grants, so mutual aid orgs step in
The Asian Mosaic Fund’s giving circle has raised $40k.
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Trump Proud Boys remark echoes Charlottesville
The moment was far from the first time that President Trump has failed to denounce white supremacists or has promoted racist ideas.
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How my time at an elite Philly private school inspired my film about isolation
Filmmaker André Robert Lee, the brainchild behind “The Prep School Negro,” writes about isolation, racism and identity.
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A changing story by police on a rural Pa. shooting helped fuel white vigilantes and misinformation
Footage from the night of a shooting in Bedford Co. does not support state police accounts that a confrontation preceded shots being fired at a group of civil rights marchers.
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Biden’s Delaware State comments taken out of context, DSU official says
A Washington paper made it sound like Biden was lying about his connection to the HBCU by taking his words out of context.
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Regional Rail is on life support. Essential workers can bring it back.
Ridership on Regional Rail is down 90%. SEPTA must change the system so it can serve essential workers — and draw people back to empty trains.
4 years ago
Texas sheriff charged with destroying evidence in officer-related death
A grand jury indicted Robert Chody on charges of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death of Javier Ambler, a Black man who died in police custody.
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At UN, nations urge overdue reckoning with colonial crimes
The message was: 'For those who think the word “colonialism” evokes a long-ago, no-longer-relevant era, think again.'
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Black folk artist Elijah Pierce is Barnes Foundation’s first new show during pandemic
A show of over 100 works takes a fresh look at the mid-century Black folk artist.
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