Race & Ethnicity

A rise in pandemic reading and demand for works written from the Black perspective or about social justice made a unique moment in time, the owner says.

What else explains how people can think it’s perfectly within their rights to try to overthrow the government because their guy didn’t win?

Joseph Bologna was arrested in June after a baton-beating video went viral.

Ahead of MLK Day, we reflect on racial justice and equity at the end of the Trump era.

Temple University professor and Philly civil rights attorney Timothy Welbeck spoke with WHYY's Annette John-Hall about white supremacy and the deadly U.S. Capitol siege.

The school and the Movement for Black and Brown Lives of Montgomery County are entering a yearlong partnership starting MLK Day.

Chancellor Daniel Greenstein said he was “ashamed to admit” he had not studied how the university system has historically perpetuated racial inequity.

For Black Philadelphians, last week’s armed riot at the Capitol was a show of the white supremacy that has always lived just below the surface of American life.

Getting hit by a rubber bullet helped Judith Max Palmer understand the wanton violence that Black communities experience too often at the hands of police.

The Montgomery County Immunization Coalition and the TriCounty Health Council brought together a panel of community leaders to talk about the issue.

Rethinking everything about how the board does business, including long-held practices, is the impetus for the board’s new “goals and guardrails” initiative.

The data is critical to detecting potential racial profiling, but the agency had quietly stopped collecting it in 2012.

People can sign up through a contact form. The consortium will begin administering the vaccines when Philadelphia enters Phase 1B of its distribution plan.

“There is a disconnect between the world of capital … and Black-owned companies,” said Social Venture Circle Philadelphia Network Manager John Moore.

How do you explain to children, especially Black children, the insurrection at the Capitol? What about white supremacy? Our guests dive into the conversation.