As a self-identified “mixed girl” growing up in Northeast Ohio, Janis Bowdler wished for a long, blonde ponytail. Bowdler, appointed in April as the president of JPMorgan Chase Foundation, remembers ...

Following a grand jury investigation, 15 members of a North Philadelphia gang have been arrested on a variety of charges stemming back to 2014 gun violence, District Attorney Seth Williams announced ...

Latin America and the Caribbean are among the places most at risk of climate change, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) released in early ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection released a list of 243 cases across two dozen counties confirming to residents that their private water had been impacted by gas drilling, known ...

Just a few days after Philadelphia’s anti-bullying campaign “Champions of Change” had their end-of-the-school-year celebration, a parent from Olney Charter School shared a video on Facebook that ...

"Damaris" of the lush black hair and inquisitive dark eyes is a single mom and for the past four years has been a sex worker in Mexico City, fighting day by day against discrimination and police ...

The practice of slavery during Colonial times brought many African people to the Latin American continent. In countries like Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay, Blacks account for a big proportion of the ...

In the 40th anniversary year of Congreso and after Cynthia Figueroa moved on her position in Mayor Kenney’s cabinet, The Board of Directors of Congreso de Latinos Unidos, also known as Congreso, ...

You can now buy Girl Scout cookies online. Yes, you read that correctly...online. For the first time in almost 100 years, Girl Scouts of the USA is going digital with their cookie sales. Girl Scouts ...

As the United States undergoes a massive removal of confederate monuments and flags across the mainland, its oldest colony, Puerto Rico has yet to undergo a similar transformation. Throughout the ...

On Sunday, June 7, the Philadelphia Film Society will be screening Joshua Oppenheimer's 2012 film The Act of Killing, at noon at the PFS Roxy Theater. In the Academy Award nominated documentary, ...

Farmacias El Amal ha cerrado sus 22 establecimientos en Puerto Rico, lo que deja sin empleo a cientos de trabajadores de la compañía, que el pasado junio había anunciado la inversión de 5 millones de ...