Race & Ethnicity

High rates of heart disease have meant higher COVID-19 infection rates for Black Americans. A pilot program aims to provide mentorship to medical trainees.

The waste facility would have been in a predominantly Black area where the township converges with other towns. They gave the plan a cold reception.

Along with Hispanic and Native American people, Black Americans are dying from COVID-19 at nearly three times the rate of white Americans.

National network executives Peter Dunn and David Friend have been placed on administrative leave.

The storming of the Capitol was a visceral reminder to many of us that America is replete with extremist and cult-like groups, and that their existence is by no means benign.

President Biden on Tuesday signs four executive actions aimed at upholding one of his key campaign themes.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day this year, NewCORE and WHYY presented the 2021 Conversations of Kings: Media, narrative, and social change.

New Castle County will become the newest National Health Corps site with AmeriCorps volunteers working to respond to COVID-19 and address inequities in health care.

Parker’s public viewing at the Met Monday drew a steady trickle of people. One by one, people shared examples of Parker’s advice, encouragement, and generosity.

A Black mother in New Jersey is seven times more likely than a white mother to die from maternity-related complications, according to the report.

The Biden Administration will resume efforts to redesign the $20 bill to feature abolitionist Harriet Tubman, the White House said Monday.

Since 2015, police have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white and for some, the shootings weren't their first or last.

Residents and officials of several Delaware County towns have joined forces in opposition to a proposal to put a solid waste facility near their neighborhoods.

This comes after Mayor Jim Kenney used a one-time executive action in 2020 to designate the June 19 celebration an official city holiday for the first time.

Big Wash explores the laundromat as a site of queer domestic life where the private meets the public, and the idea of cleaning as both ritual and meditation.