Race & Ethnicity

The Kenney administration hopes a new committee can help center Black and brown voices in the city’s next comprehensive planning process.

Black people have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19. Many of them are the most distrustful of a vaccine.

Alice Dunbar-Nelson was a prolific writer, educator and activist from the Victorian era through the Harlem Renaissance. She lived her last days in Philadelphia.

San Miguel Arcángel keeps South Philadelphia prepared for ritual and protected from danger.

La tienda San Miguel Arcángel mantiene el sur de Filadelfia listo para los ceremoniales y protegido del peligro.

San Miguel Arcángel keeps South Philadelphia prepared for ritual and protected from danger.

RevitGods, Inc. CEO Uchenna Okere shares his personal experience in the architecture industry and how the field can bring in more women and people of color.

Dr. Guy A. Sims is a Philly native and Germantown High grad. His appointment follows staff organizing to fight discrimination at the institution.

In sharing modeling used to follow the virus, the governor said a moderate-case scenario can be achieved by mask-wearing, distancing, 'using common sense.'

Philly Boricuas is a young organization seeking to build more power for Philadelphia’s growing Puerto Rican community.

Philly Boricuas es una organización joven que busca empoderar a la creciente comunidad puertorriqueña de Filadelfia.

Philly Boricuas is a young organization seeking to build more power for Philadelphia’s growing Puerto Rican community.

Two big reasons stand out: Republicans lost many of their moderate voters here as the GOP crept rightward, and suburbs have further diversified.

Ten years after it was sued for racial bias, the city still employs the controversial police tactic known as stop-and-frisk. Mayor Jim Kenney says he wants it to end. Will it?

The pandemic’s effects have rippled through child care, disproportionately affecting Black and Latino-owned centers in an industry that has long relied on providers of color.