Race & Ethnicity

A City Hall rally continues a summer that has seen the country’s largest protests and demands for racial justice and police reforms in decades.

In these tumultuous times, we check in on the mental health of teens and young adults who are reporting the highest rates of anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

A new website details institutional inequities and lists demands for change.

The plaintiffs include relatives of those impacted by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre as well as a 105-year-old survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle.

Daniel Prude was arrested by Rochester Police in the early hours of March 23, after his brother, concerned for Prude's safety, had called 911.

“My heart dropped,” Shanti Mayers, owner of The Sable Collective, said of receiving an email threatening violence against Black business owners like her.

Cobbs Creek Parkway is one of the city’s most dangerous roadways. How many lives will be lost before the state improves safety conditions?

He has repeated conspiracy theories that recent protests have been orchestrated by powerful people in “dark shadows” intent on undermining his reelection prospects.

“Why would they put her name on there?” Aguiar, the lawyer for Taylor's family, said in a statement sent to news media. “It’s outrageous.”

Portions of a witness video posted by Los Angeles TV station Fox 11 shows the man's body on the ground behind a pickup truck as angry onlookers yell at deputies in the street.

Started at a moment’s notice in Philadelphia, the grassroots fundraiser has gone national.

A combination of things — access to primary care, chronic health conditions and environmental factors — may be to blame, but researchers still can’t say.

The National Urban League and the Anti-Defamation League announced the partnership Mon. following a tense period for Black and Jewish communities.

Unions say that could disrupt an important role the Postal Service has played in providing generations of African Americans secure middle-class employment.

Many NFL teams are weighing how to tackle racial justice issues in the days since Jacob Blake, 29, was left with paralysis after being shot in the back by a police officer.