Race & Ethnicity

The three other police officers on the scene when a Minneapolis officer pressed his knee on George Floyd’s neck are being charged with aiding and abetting a murder.

For more than a decade, African Americans called for the removal of the Rizzo statue. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney has finally heard them.

On Tuesday, a group of state House Democrats and local Philadelphia lawmakers proposed dozens of reforms regarding police training, discipline, and oversight.

We talk about how the media's coverage of the protests, the images and the language that is used, and how it shapes the narrative and influences public opinion and policy.

Mostly peaceful throughout the day, the demonstrators faced police officers, National Guard troops and other forces.

Police brutality brought protesters into the streets. But the city’s "inadequate" response to COVID-19 contributes to anger, writes Rev. Malcolm Byrd.

WHYY reporters chronicle how protests, looting and the police response have escalated in Philly, taking us deep into what they've seen, heard and experienced on the ground.

Though Black Out Tuesday was originally organized by the music community, the social media world also went dark in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

"There have been epidemics in the Black community that have existed for generations before COVID. COVID accentuated and exposed those epidemics."

"He used violent means to ask to be escorted across the park into the courtyard of the church," Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington told NPR.

Greater accountability for police action and recruitment aimed at attracting officers of color are urged by the elected officials.

We talk about the protests over police violence against black Americans, the political implications, the public reaction and what comes next.

“What I saw today was every race out there just helping.”

"I was outraged that he felt that he had the license to do that, and that he would abuse our sacred symbols and our sacred space in that way," Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde said.

It will likely take a week or two to see the impact of recent gatherings, the health department says. Memorial Day effects, if any, haven’t appeared yet.