Social Justice

The North Philly neighborhood has fewer trees and hotter days than areas that weren’t redlined. Residents, along with city government, are working on solutions.

NFL teams opening their seasons in empty stadiums knelt, locked arms or raised fists in protest for pregame ceremonies on the first full Sunday of the football season.

The Black Community Watchline in Middlesex County, N.J. allows people to report and seek counseling for instances of anti-Black violence, aggression and bias.

The legislation was inspired by a May 25 incident, where a white woman called 911 on a Black man in New York City’s Central Park.

The trailblazing civic leader changed attitudes about formerly incarcerated people and helped restore the vote for those with felony convictions.

In the most popular films of 2019, protagonists were more diverse than ever, and there were more women behind the camera.

Most large civil settlements for police killings were in liberal areas the year after the Ferguson unrest. Now, lawyers say current protests are hardening political divisions.

Campus activists challenge President John Fry’s commitment to racial justice based on his approach to community policing and development.

Top police leaders in Rochester are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, Mayor Lovely Warren said Tuesday.

Nearly 65% of Americans agreed that the country "needs to continue making changes to give Black Americans equal rights with white Americans."

How did the President, whose rhetoric about women and minorities is often violent, become the party of Christians who claim to love their neighbors as themselves?

The summer stretch has both galvanized broad public support for the racial justice movement and exposed the obstacles to turning that support into concrete political change.

NY AG Letitia James announced that she is putting together a grand jury as part of an investigation into the death of Daniel Prude, who died in police custody in March.

The group Refuse Fascism is promising nonviolent protests from now until Election Day on Nov. 3.

Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.