racism

The wave of student activism in recent months shows precisely why schools cannot afford to avoid the topics of race and discrimination, experts say.

Some graduates of color from the nation’s top military schools are left questioning the military maxim that all service members wearing the same uniform are equal.

In a new memoir, former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs talks about the challenges he faced growing up and how anti-poverty initiatives can give others a chance.

Corporate executives across the country quietly funded anti-critical race theory groups in the buildup to the recent elections.

Jon Gruden resigned as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after emails containing offensive language surfaced.

The Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, is cracking down on the books teachers keep in their classroom libraries, drawing protests from educators who say the guidelines amount to censorship.

A record number of American Muslims ran for office in 2018 after Trump’s Trump’s ban on travelers from 13 countries with significant Muslim populations. That followed more than a decade of prejudice after the 9/11 attacks. NBCLX Storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo looks back at the history of how the nation treated Muslims following the attacks, and ties it to the present.

Idina Menzel said she’s looked to her ex-husband Taye Diggs for guidance when answering her son’s questions about race and racism. The “Cinderella” and “Wicked” star opened up to NBCLX host Tabitha Lipkin about what she learned from parenting her biracial son and why it’s OK to say “I don’t know.”

Surprised and uncomfortable- that’s how a father and son felt- when they saw what was written on the deed to their Manchester home. They went to the legislature to get it changed.

A Manchester family Tuesday removed a decades-old covenant in the deed to their home that stipulated the property could only be sold to white people.

“You woke up every day, you’re at war with the world,” says former Nazi Jeff Schoep. In this video from NBCLX contributor Bart Vandever, Schoep and hate crime survivor Josh Stepakoff unpack why hate and radicalism permeate society today and their effects.

Officer Harry Dunn, who is Black, spoke at a House Select Committee hearing about the racism he faced from rioters while standing guard in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 6.

An Iowa race track says it will cut ties with an announcer who went on a racist rant against Black fans and athletes who kneel during the national anthem.

An NYPD sergeant was arraigned Thursday after he allegedly punched a man in a Harlem holding cell in 2019, and then six months later knelt on another suspect’s back after the man hurled racial slurs at him during an arrest.

After a push from lawmakers in Great Lakes states, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will now refer to what was previously called ‘Asian carp’ as ‘invasive carp,’ after acknowledging the term could contribute to xenophobia and racism.

While societal changes are needed to address the wealth gap, there are also steps Black Americans can take right now to start building wealth, experts say.

The talk that they may be prejudiced toward other people “keeps me up,” says Joanna Gaines. “It’s so far from who we really are.”

The House passed a bill that would remove Confederate statues and the bust of Roger Taney, a former chief justice known for promoting slavery.

Investigators have found the gunman who killed two people Saturday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, had made “some troubling white supremacist rhetoric” that targeted Black and Jewish people, and both his victims were Black, officials said Sunday. The shooting is now being investigated as a hate crime, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. The gunman “walked by several other people…

The racial wealth gap in the U.S. is more of a chasm. “Baby bonds” have become one proposal to help close the great divide.