Social Justice

Two lawmakers from Philly have teamed up to improve accessibility on mass transit. But some riders with disabilities question whether the touted improvements go far enough.

Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement.

For girls like 19-year-old Giovanna Basso, a teen activist from Brazil, being a teen and an activist is a balancing act.

For the second time this month, a video of a racist attack happening in Mt. Laurel, N.J. has gone viral.

The team announced the name change on Twitter on Friday morning, posting a two-minute video narrated by actor Tom Hanks.

Health care should be considered a human right, says Put People First! PA, which organized a Center City march.

“I’m praying that they stay open,” said a mother whose son has Down syndrome and visited the Carousel House often.

Marty Watson had just put gas in her tank when the episode started. Police have not responded to a request for comment.

When someone forwarded Brandyn Campbell a petition calling for the end of diversity programs in her child's school district, she felt hurt and disappointed.

The journal Earth's Future provides one of the most detailed looks to date at how differences in heat extremes break down along racial and socioeconomic lines.

The university’s investigation into mishandling of victims’ remains from the 1985 bombing is ongoing.

The case of Hervis Rogers, a Black Texas resident facing years in prison for illegally voting, is the latest in the war for American democracy.

PA students can repeat the school year. And, the Paralympics are coming up - what does accessibility mean for the disabled community? Plus, The Voice winner Cam Anthony!

UD joins a consortium studying how the work of people held in slavery, or those who held people as slaves, influenced the history of the schools.

The city of Charlottesville, Va., removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Saturday, toppling a symbol that was at the center of the deadly Unite the Right rally