Sep 10 Black preacher arrested while watering flowers in Alabama sues police By Associated Press A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town filed a federal lawsuit alleging the ordeal violated his constitutional rights and caused lingering problems including emotional distress… Continue reading
Sep 04 New congressional maps in southern states dilute Black votes, critics say By Sara Cline, Associated Press In Alabama, Florida and Louisiana, new congressional maps that some judges have ruled dilute the power of Black voters are being used in upcoming elections. Continue reading
Aug 21 Watch 7:31 Parents of murdered Army officer push for burial at Arlington cemetery By Geoff Bennett, Kaisha Young In May 2017, Richard Collins III had just been commissioned into the U.S. Army when he was stabbed to death at a university bus stop. His killer had links to a white supremacist group and was sentenced to life in… Continue watching
Aug 16 Watch 8:44 St. Louis combats opioid crisis as overdose deaths skyrocket among Black Americans By John Yang, Mike Fritz More Americans died from drug overdoses last year than ever before. And while deaths are up across nearly every demographic since the start of the pandemic, there’s been an especially alarming spike in overdose deaths among Black Americans. John Yang… Continue watching
Aug 10 Watch 6:41 America's most vulnerable bear the brunt of high inflation By William Brangham While inflation eased slightly last month, it continues to remain high and new data shows it's having an outsized, negative impact on Native American, Black and Latino families in particular, according to a poll out this week from NPR, the… Continue watching
Jul 19 Watch 6:47 Why overdose deaths spiked among people of color during the pandemic A CDC report finds overdose deaths rose significantly for people of color from 2019 to 2020. The synthetic opioid fentanyl is largely to blame, combined with a disruption in treatment and prevention programs during the pandemic. Dr. Edwin Chapman, who… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch 9:52 Americans celebrate Juneteenth as the push for social justice persists By Amna Nawaz, Ryan Connelly Holmes Monday marked just the second time in U.S. history that the federal government has recognized Juneteenth. The holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought word of slavery’s end to Galveston, Texas, freeing the last enslaved people after the… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch 6:04 Juneteenth's evolution into a national holiday and meaningful ways to celebrate By John Yang, Kaisha Young Monday will be the second time Juneteenth is a federal holiday. The day honors the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans, but some people are still figuring out how to best mark the holiday. John Yang spoke with two organizers about Juneteenth’s… Continue watching
May 07 Watch 5:30 Inequality persists as the U.S. economy recovers from the pandemic The latest jobs report for April shows the U.S. capping a year of solid growth. Employers added 428,000 jobs and the unemployment rate remains steady at 3.6 percent, a pandemic-era low. But inequality continues as the economy recovers from the… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch 7:26 National Urban League's 'State of Black America' report shows consistent disparities By John Yang, Matt Loffman Since 2005, the National Urban League has released an annual "Equality Index" to compare how Black Americans are doing in comparison to white Americans. This year, the index shows that Black Americans get only 73.9 percent of what white Americans… Continue watching