Race & Reckoning

Something is very wrong when three citizens going peacefully about their business are surrounded by guns and forced to prove their innocence.

Here in Evanston, Ill., we've laid down a blueprint that communities across the country could use to achieve racial justice.

The author of "How to be Antiracist" discusses the effect of bad policies and how we can move forward from them.

Police ruled the deaths suicides; the families say their loved ones were lynched.

Douglass foresaw three possible paths for an irreconcilably divided U.S. Which will it take this time?

A Massachusetts summer camp has come under fire after a July 29 incident left an 8-year-old Black boy with an abrasion on his neck and a community outraged.

The former gubernatorial candidate and the former first lady warn of "dangerous legislation" in states across the country that would limit the right to vote.

To find out, I looked at six ways to measure White attitudes on race -- and how those influenced their votes.

Public historically Black colleges and universities are benefitting from record government and philanthropic support amid deeper respect for the work they do with limited resources, but the legacy of inequity can complicate the reach of those dollars.

The comedian shared jokes about the Olympian's sexual assault and her mental health.

Twitter offers a new way to apply collective pressure toward social change.

Santos Rodriguez was killed nearly 50 years ago by officer Darrell Cain during an interrogation over $8 stolen from a vending machine.

Keren Prescott, a Black activist in Connecticut who was spit on by Yuliya Gilshteyn on Jan. 6, was left in tears over a lenient ruling she described as “the epitome of White privilege.”

“Now as a society, we may be paying a cost for our ignorance about our own history," said a law professor.

In gentrifying communities like Liberty City and Little Haiti — traditionally Black and Latino neighborhoods that are located inland and on higher ground — some residents said they've been pressured by real estate agents and developers who want their property.

West, considered one of the most prominent Black philosophers and progressive activists in the country, tweeted, “Let us bear witness against this spiritual rot!”

We found no accompanying changes in arrest rates or assaults on police, data that suggests that officers can deescalate while remaining just as effective.

Lola Velazquez-Aguilu was key in building the prosecution case that helped convict Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd. Now she’s in contention to be Minnesota’s next U.S. attorney.

The lawsuit from Taylor's family challenges the accounts of Louisville authorities and public officials who’ve said such footage of the March 2020 fatal shooting does not exist.

Judge Peter A. Cahill said he found no evidence of trauma among four young girls who witnessed the killing and ultimately didn’t take that into account when determining Chauvin’s prison sentence.