Social Justice

A year after a book on the killing of black teen Emmett Till revealed that a key figure in the case acknowledged lying, the federal government has reopened its investigation.

It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken

Protest moves from ICE office to City Hall, pressuring Philadelphia mayor to end agreement allowing immigration officials to view a real-time arrest database

Nearly 1,300 people with a single conviction of marijuana possession or use could get an automatic expungement.

The city's contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement grants the agency access to the Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System, a real-time arrest database.

Protestors continue to challenge PARS, the Philadelphia program that allows ICE access to city data.  Businesses affected by this week ...

There are more than 150 coaches on USA Swimming's permanently banned list. Almost all are men, most of whom the organization has deemed to have violated its code of conduct.

Independence Day in a deeply divided United States is causing many Americans to ponder patriotism. Activist Giana Graves joins the show t ...

The goal was to provide a token of comfort, escape, to the roughly 20 migrant kids staying at the center in Berks County.

Taney Street is named after Roger B. Taney, fifth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and author of what is arguably its most infamous decision, Dred Scott v. Sanford.

I cannot help wondering why more of us did not spend 2016 engaging in the most peaceful protest of all – the vote.

Some had worried a #MeToo scandal would be fatal for one of the nation’s oldest and most decorated drum corps.

Starbucks gets list of suggestions for cutting bias from the company in the long-term.

President Trump hasn't yet nominated a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, but the fight over confirming that nominee began the day Kennedy gave notice.

A week after having the police called on them at a Cinemark theater in West Philadelphia, a black couple are calling for a boycott of the ...