racism

Actress Francia Raisa tearfully described a racist encounter to her fans online after getting boxed-in by supporters of President Trump who were attending a rally. LX News was joined by therapist Jardin Dogan to discuss the issue of racial trauma and get advice on how to heal from racist incidents.

Pennsylvania State Police say they won’t charge a woman who was recorded directing a racial slur against the wife of Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor at a grocery store. Gisele Fetterman said Thursday she preferred that the woman instead get assistance from social service agencies and other help.

Young people are passionate about removing controversial statues and building names across the country. But they don’t always realize voting is the easiest way to affect change, NBCLX’s Noah Pransky explains.

5th District Congresswoman Jahana Hayes was repeatedly targeted with racial slurs during a Zoom Call with constituents on Monday night.

A new documentary, “Driving While Black,” digs deep into the racist reality that Black people have faced behind the wheel since the 1930s. Historian Gretchen Sorin, whose book inspired the film, and director Rick Burns joined LX News to discuss the PBS documentary and its call to action.

Starting Thursday, Yelp will add an alert on the pages of businesses that have been accused of racist behavior, following several widely covered allegations of racism at U.S. restaurants in recent months.

The climate crisis is a major issue in this year’s election among members of Generation Z. NBCLX’s Ngozi Ekeledo talked to two 18-year-olds who are speaking out against environmental racism as first-time voters in the upcoming election.

This summer, 17 towns and cities in Connecticut declared racism a public health crisis. We take a look at how the issue is being addressed head on.

As parents help their children navigate remote classes during the coronavirus pandemic, they’re more aware of what’s being taught

After a contentious exchange at the first presidential debate, a conversation about hate groups in the state has been ignited. The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks hate groups and lists the “Proud Boys” and several other hate groups as active in Connecticut. The Proud Boys name was brought up during the debate. “They are an organization that doesn’t necessarily...

The Proud Boys, who President Trump was criticized for not denouncing during Tuesday’s debate, has active members in Connecticut, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Minnesota officials have stopped a COVID-19 testing study after multiple reports that state and federal public health workers were greeted by racial and ethnic slurs as they went door-to-door. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulled federal surveyors out of Minnesota this week after they experienced verbal abuse and intimidation. In Eitzen, along the Iowa border, one...

The suspect, who was charged with two hate crimes, was seen on video walking along a street when she allegedly hurled racial slurs at a Black female jogger before throwing a glass bottle at her

The course is designed to teach students about systemic and anti-Black racism.

Tiffiny Dixon looks at her 4-year-old son and knows that someday he will “stop being cute” and start being stereotyped as a threat. That’s why she takes him to Black Lives Matter protests – to teach him how to fight back by using his constitutional rights of assembly and free speech.

Dr. Shamard Charles, the host of “Heart Over Hype” speaks on issues of police brutality, police reform and the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities

Calls for racial and social justice continued Sunday across Massachusetts, one week after 29-year-old Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. About 150 people attended a rally Sunday night at Nubian Square in Roxbury where they demanded justice for Blake and other victims of police shootings. “The Party for Socialism and Liberation condemns…

A recent study has found that Black infants are more likely to die when under the care of white doctors than Black doctors. Dr. Rachel Hardeman, who researches reproductive health equity, joined LX News to explain how institutional racism is making childbirth more deadly for Black mothers and their infants.

“When you have a friend, or you’re involved with someone who’s speaking like that to others…If you feel it’s wrong and don’t say anything. Then you’re perpetuating the problem.”

Ephraim Salaam lived his his dream playing in the NFL from 1998 to 2010. Over the course of those 12 years, playing for five NFL franchises like Atlanta, Denver, Jacksonville, Houston and Detroit, you couldn’t blame Salaam if one game tended to merge into the next. But there is one particular Sunday that’s seared into his memory.