African-Americans

Health Screenings IBC

'Our Community, Our Health' campaign providing free health screenings to Philly's African American residents

New lung cancer screening guidelines would benefit women, Black people

New lung cancer screening guidelines

New sickle cell disease treatments are helping people live longer – and giving them a higher quality of life

Sickle cell disease

Minority patients benefit from having minority doctors, but that's a hard match to make

Minority doctor-patient relationship

Black History Month events happening in Philadelphia

Mural Arts Philadelphia Black History Month Tour

Stephen A. Smith brings 'First Take' to Wilmington with bullish outlook on Sixers

Stephen A. Smith HBCU

Study: Black patients less likely to seek post-injury physical therapy than whites

racial disparity rehabilitation

Dying while black: Perpetual gaps exist in health care for African-Americans

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders admits her statistics on African-American employment were false

Part of South Street renamed to honor late Odunde Festival founder

Odunde Festival

Questlove learns fascinating truth about family ancestry on 'Finding Your Roots'

Questlove

History Mystery

Gone and (mostly) forgotten: The black U.S. veterans of Johnson Cemetery

Johnson Cemetery "colored troops" headstone

Charles Barkley: 'I'm not going to waste my time' with Confederate statues

WATCH: Trailer for Charles Barkley's new docuseries 'American Race'

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Celebration of Black Arts Festival showcases talented authors, artists

Celebration of Black Arts Festival

Penn Museum to host celebration of African cultures

Celebration of African Cultures at Penn Museum

Renderings show reuse plan for South Philly's historic First African Baptist Church

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Black Lives Matter to meet with 97.5 over white producer's black character

Pennsylvania's lone African-American GOP delegate talks Trump

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Nutter: Trump 'ignorant' for singling out black supporter at rally

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African American Trump supporter: We are sick of condescension, racism

Milton Meets Trump

Pioneering Philly journalist and NABJ founder Acel Moore dies

Acel Moore

Nutter: Sanders' comments on African-Americans 'slightly offensive'

Kwanzaa celebration set for African American Museum in Philadelphia

Black students at Pa. university protest demeaning Snapchat photo

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Pennsylvania police chief resigns after using 'N-word' in email

Farrell Thomas Burke

Prison seems inevitable to Delaware youth

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Historic Building

Pennsylvania's oldest African-American church may escape demolition

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Baltimore state attorney Mosby speaks at NAACP convention in Philadelphia

Analysis: White men make up half of arrests in Lower Merion

More black families choosing to homeschool children

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Editing African American Art history into Wikipedia

Kara Walker

Earl Lloyd, first African-American in NBA, dead at 86

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Black History Month

Sobering data for Black History Month

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