May 22 Supreme Court strikes down 2 redrawn districts in N.C. over racial bias By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The justices ruled that Republicans who controlled the state legislature and governor's office in 2011 placed too many African-Americans in the two districts. The result was to weaken African-American voting strength elsewhere in North Carolina. Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch 6:03 Are minority drivers being unfairly charged more for insurance? By PBS News Hour A new analysis of auto insurance rates in some states found sometimes dramatic price discrepancies for predominantly minority neighborhoods that ProPublica’s Julia Angwin says can’t be explained by driving risks. Hari Sreenivasan discusses the investigation with Angwin, plus gets another… Continue watching
Mar 23 Attacker’s fatal stabbing of New York black man was ‘racially motivated,’ police say By Iman Smith Authorities arrested and charged a white Baltimore resident on suspicion of murder after he admitted to killing Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man, in New York, police officials said this week. Continue reading
Feb 28 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. Continue reading
Feb 27 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… Continue reading
Feb 21 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. Continue reading
Feb 09 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. Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch 9:07 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… Continue watching
Jan 16 Watch 9:40 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… Continue watching
Jan 16 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. Continue reading