Race & Ethnicity
Philly teen’s music video, a year in the making, carries Dr. King’s message into the future
Jehmir Nixon’s “Things That Matter” urges people to speak out against racial injustice.
6 years ago
New program aims to bring more civil rights lawyers to the South
Unveiled on MLK Day the program will offer free tuition and room and board, a commitment intended to remove barriers for students deterred by law school's steep costs.
6 years ago
Rev. David W. Brown reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the media, and the Capitol riots.
6 years ago
How Black Philadelphians lived MLK’s fight for ‘open housing’
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. fought de-facto segregation and substandard housing. Black Philadelphians knew the struggle all too well. They still do.
6 years ago
N.J. law strengthening Amistad Commission aims to help students learn ‘our real history’
Changes aim to strengthen the panel by giving it more independence and ensuring that the curriculum it helps develop is used more widely in New Jersey schools.
6 years ago
How a ‘love affair with Black literature’ kept Lansdale’s Black Reserve Bookstore alive
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.
6 years ago
Listen 1:39The Capitol insurrection was never about the election. It was about white supremacy.
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?
6 years ago
Joseph Bologna was arrested in June after a baton-beating video went viral.
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Ahead of MLK Day, we reflect on racial justice and equity at the end of the Trump era.
Air Date: January 15, 2021 10:00 am
Listen 49:13Philly civil rights attorney: White supremacy attacked democracy after the 2020 election
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.
6 years ago
Listen 4:27Montco Community College, local activists are ‘reimagining community service’
The school and the Movement for Black and Brown Lives of Montgomery County are entering a yearlong partnership starting MLK Day.
6 years ago
Head of Pa.’s public university system to examine historic roots of racism in state schools
Chancellor Daniel Greenstein said he was “ashamed to admit” he had not studied how the university system has historically perpetuated racial inequity.
6 years ago
Many Black Philadelphians don’t see how white people didn’t see insurrection coming
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.
6 years ago
I got shot with a rubber bullet by police. It was a painful lesson about white supremacy
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.
6 years ago
‘It’s critical to have cultural competency’: Suburban health care experts tackle vaccine mistrust
The Montgomery County Immunization Coalition and the TriCounty Health Council brought together a panel of community leaders to talk about the issue.
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