Social Justice

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The mother of a man who police shot to death during a routine 2015 traffic stop in Mayfair has withdrawn her federal civil-righ ...

The Philadelphia NAACP said it wants the black contractor involved in the 2013 fatal Center City building collapse to receive the same tr ...

A soon-to-be-fired Philadelphia police officer could get his job back. On Thursday, the police department announced that Officer R ...

A Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a fleeing suspect in the back during a routine traffic stop has been suspended and will be ...

A group of African-American cops wants the Philadelphia Police Department to investigate allegations of racial discrimination and corrupt ...

Last month, after school started, a New Mexico teacher was caught in an audio recording denouncing President Trump in class. “If yo ...

The Philadelphia Eagles’ Malcolm Jenkins is considered one of the best safeties in the NFL. But lately, he’s become less wide ...

Is our ability to tolerate Nazism in the United States vis à vis our First Amendment protections really something for which w ...

Normally, the loudest noise you might hear on Ryan Pownall’s sleepy Northeast Philadelphia block is the occasional roar of a lawnmower. ...

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender individuals joining ...

A private college in suburban Philadelphia says it will remove references to the name of one of its founders in printed and other materia ...

Two weeks ago, we watched in horror as white supremacists rallied around a Confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia. We wish we ...

“They were looking to target a black male, and they didn’t care if they had the right one or not,” said Asa Khalif, an organizer for Black Lives Matter.