Social Justice

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos rescinded the Obama-era guidelines for how colleges investigate sexual misconduct complaints, saying she ...

As Monday mornings often go, I woke up after one too many "snoozes" of my alarm clock. Still half-asleep, I opened Facebook. Two words were everywhere: Las Vegas.

State Sen. Joe Pennacchio, a Republican from Morris County, said 27 people in New Jersey have been exonerated since 1989 after an average of 10 years behind bars.

An observance in connection with Domestic Violence Awareness Month brought people to City Hall in Philadelphia where they signed a pledge to fight for the victims.

Fixing gerrymandering is one of the most pressing repairs we can apply to our faltering democracy, but leaders in our state government are all but refusing to discuss it.

My name is Ngô Thanh Nhàn, first name Nhàn. I was born in 1948 in Sàigòn. My life was affected by the war from an early age, with many relatives in the south Vietnamese ar

Amid the national debate over NFL players taking a knee or raising a fist to protest racial injustice, Peter wanted to show it's not just a pro-football phenomenon.

When Otis Hackney, Philadelphia’s Chief Education Officer, was in Amsterdam this spring he happened upon an exhibit detailing the h ...

After comments by President Trump calling athletes “sons of bitches” for kneeling during the national anthem a debate has erupted across the country about patriotism.

Every morning, I take the 33 bus to work. And for the past few months, I’ve noticed something looks different.As the bus makes its ...

Each time I think of Donald Trump’s remarks about black professional football players kneeling in protest during the National Anthem, I vacillate between anger and sadness.

Spewing anew without a clue, Trump presumed this weekend to tell us what is patriotism and what is not. Rest assured, the Founding Fathers shook their heads and took a knee.

There has been renewed attention to racial profiling and the epidemic of police brutality. This personal account of racial profiling has become one of many for me.

A federal judge in New Jersey refused to hit the pause button on the state’s criminal justice overhaul Thursday, saying that revert ...

The mother of a man who police shot to death during a routine 2015 traffic stop in Mayfair has withdrawn her federal civil-righ ...