racial injustice

When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists. But some public defenders, often allies of progressive activists, have praised the court’s ruling, saying gun-permitting rules like New York’s have long been a license for racial discrimination.

As Providence, Rhode Island, gears up to provide reparations to Black residents for centuries of injustices, city officials are looking beyond just the city’s role in the slave trade.

“Why?: A Conversation About Race” is an unvarnished look at social activism from the eyes of Black children as they struggle to understand demands for change.

Dr. Katya Corado and Dr. Lance Okeke are concerned about what they see as a hesitancy among members of the Latino and Black communities to participate in COVID-19-related studies. Fortunately, the infectious disease specialists are in a position to do something about it.

A quilt exhibit at Jackson State University honors dozens of lives lost in the U.S. to racial violence

Anti-Asian hate crimes increased more than 73 percent in 2020, according to newly corrected FBI data. It’s a disproportionate uptick compared to hate crimes in general, which rose 13 percent.

Jury selection has begun in Georgia, where hundreds of people were ordered to report for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors for the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery

Many of the law enforcement changes enacted by states after George Floyd’s death have centered on policing tactics, not on racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation’s capital that were used as erosion control along the Virginia shoreline of the Potomac River are being relocated to a memorial garden in Maryland.

Police officers in west Michigan handcuffed the group after a neighbor wrongly reported that the three Black people were breaking into a home.

Three Washington state police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges in the restraint death of a Black man who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe.

Black Tulsa never really recovered from the devastation that took place 100 years ago, when nearly every structure in Greenwood, the fabled Black Wall Street, was flattened and as many as 300 people were killed

A family-friendly street festival was also planned at the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd died. The intersection was disrupted by gunfire just hours before the event.

Leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April could vote Saturday on a resolution that would put the city on track to making major changes to its policing practices

LeBron James is explaining why he deleted a tweet that referenced 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, who was shot and killed by a police officer on Tuesday, April 20

Purnell Steen, an accomplished jazz musician and civil rights activist, talks about the struggles Black musicians faced at the dawn of the civil rights era.

When massive demonstrations against racial injustice erupted across the nation last summer, protesters often swarmed onto roads or highways to draw attention to their cause

Elizabeth Williams, a former Philadelphia nurse and hospital superintendent, talks about fighting for acceptance as a Black medical professional in the medical system and how discrimination followed her career from hospital to hospital.

President Joe Biden mentioned “the sting of systemic racism” in his inauguration speech. Here’s what the term means.

Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks