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 ...

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 ...

Can Psychology explain the victory of Donald Trump and the rising polarisation that seem to have extended around the Western world? The New Yorker did a research on different experts and psychology ...

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 ...

Secretary of State John Kerry, TV Celebrity Bill Nye and billionaire Tom Steyer are just a few big names that stood up against climate change this week—and those who deny its existence. A recent Pew ...

There is no Latino civil rights activist and labor leader more beloved than Cesar Chavez. So beloved, in fact, that in 2014 a Republican candidate running for a U.S. congressional seat in Arizona ...

A forgotten story of dissent and militia set during the Chilean dictatorship will take center stage in Philadelphia this weekend. Written and directed by Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderón, ...

Center City District Restaurant Week is back in Philadelphia for the second time this year. Although the first week of this two-week long foodie’s dream is over, there is still one more week to enjoy ...

The PEW Research Center recently released a study of racial bias between Blacks, whites, Asians and biracial individuals. Results varied between striking and predictable. First, the obvious. Using an ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Between smoke, stones and debris, groups of rescuers and volunteers working against the clock to save as many lives as possible, have managed to communicate to systematize their work, transforming the ...