Race Matters

Georgia couple gets prison time for racist threats at child’s birthday party

By Joshua Barajas

In 2015, the couple shouted racial slurs and made armed threats outside a child's birthday party, according to court documents.

Analysis reveals racial disparities in school arrests

By Evie Blad and Alex Harwin, Education Week

In 43 states and the District of Columbia, black students are arrested at school at disproportionately high levels, an analysis of federal data by the Education Week Research Center finds. And one reason may be that black students are more…

U.S. ‘has not yet reached the mountaintop,’ says new civil rights commission chair

By Laura Santhanam

For Catherine Lhamon, it’s been an eventful introduction to her new role as chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Column: How I learned my own value as a black male teacher

By Ricky House

I can count on one hand the number of black men who have taught me in a classroom setting and that is not okay.

Children of color with autism face disparities of care and isolation

By PBS News Hour

African-American children are often diagnosed with autism at older ages than white children, missing years of potential intervention and treatment. Special correspondent John Donvan and producer Karen Zucker meet a black family who struggled to find community and resources for…

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How a Georgia county’s campaign of terror drove away its black community

By Duarte Geraldino, Mike Fritz

In 1912, news of a violent sexual assault enraged the residents of Georgia's Forsyth County and led to a lynching and the execution of two African American teens, as well as a campaign of terror to drive out the entire…

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Are hateful outbursts rising? Since the election, some are keeping track

By Kenya Downs

The Southern Poverty Law Center has recorded more than 1,000 incidents of hate-based intimidation following the 2016 presidential election. But most of these incidents aren't considered hate crimes.

Column: In search of the spot where two black teens were killed

By Duarte Geraldino

About the only thing easy to find was the sense that something really bad happened here, something from which America can learn.

Do ride-sharing apps discriminate against black customers?

By Making Sen$e Editor

A new study found that there were roughly twice the number of cancellations for customers who used African American-sounding names when requesting a ride in Boston than those using white-sounding names.

The earnings gap between black and white men has barely shrunk in 30 years. Why?

By Making Sen$e Editor

Over the past 75 years, the racial gap in economic rank has narrowed sharply among men at the top of the earnings ladder, but changed very little among those at the middle and bottom.