Social Justice

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 ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed a bill to wipe clean criminal records for certain low-level offenders if they go a decade without any other convictions.

In Pa., legislation passed the state House of Representatives earlier this month that would make it easier for people with intellectual disabilities to testify in court.

The outreach came in the wake of the president's recent spate of pardons and commutations, most of which were granted to public figures or those who received media attention.

A black family says a Philadelphia movie theater manager called police when they tried to retrieve their children from a theater after getting a refund.

The rash of videotaped incidents in which white people have called police on black people for trivial reasons has reached fever pitch.

About 1 in 5 flight attendants say they have witnessed a passenger being sexually assaulted or had an assault reported to them.

"Growing up, I kind of believed that sexual violence was, just in general, a Western concept, like it doesn't happen to people who are Muslim."

The event on the National Mall kicks off the next phase of the new Poor People’s Campaign to continue – and build upon – the original campaign started by MLK

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn, talks with journalists Max Marin and Ryan Briggs about how sexual harassment in city government has gone unreported and unrecorded.