Race & Ethnicity

Top police leaders in Rochester are retiring en masse amid criticism of the city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, Mayor Lovely Warren said Tuesday.

Cobbs Creek residents have been complaining that the road is dangerous for decades. Neighbors there have called for greater safety measures, but little has changed.

Nearly 65% of Americans agreed that the country "needs to continue making changes to give Black Americans equal rights with white Americans."

A new coalition to create a public bank in Philly could help reverse decades of discrimination against Black neighborhoods, business owners.

Tawanda Jones created an open-air market for Black entrepreneurs in Camden to showcase their wares and support each other while social distancing.

The summer stretch has both galvanized broad public support for the racial justice movement and exposed the obstacles to turning that support into concrete political change.

NY AG Letitia James announced that she is putting together a grand jury as part of an investigation into the death of Daniel Prude, who died in police custody in March.

The director of the Office of Management and Budget told agency heads on Friday that such trainings were "divisive" and "anti-American."

The tensions coursing through the United States over racism and policing are likely targets for adversaries seeking to influence the election, lawmakers and experts warn.

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.