Race Matters

Audio shows Standing Rock Sioux tribe objected to pipeline two years ago

By Alison Thoet

Recently released audio from a 2014 meeting between the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access Pipeline executives contradict the company’s statements that it knew nothing of the tribe’s concerns about the new pipeline.

In the black community, a division over charter schools

By PBS News Hour

With the election of Donald Trump, a big proponent of school choice, and his like-minded pick for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, the topic of charter schools is likely to attract more attention. But among African-American parents and the NAACP,…

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How this Harlem restaurant changed America

By Paul Freedman, The Conversation

“You can’t write a book about American food without giving a big place to African American cuisine, which is arguably what American cuisine is at heart.”…

Racial issues likely to come up at Sessions' Senate hearing

By Eric Tucker and Chad Day, Associated Press

Racially charged allegations toward Sessions derailed his efforts to become a federal judge and made him a symbol of black-voter intimidation under Reagan.

'Hamilton' cast to Pence: 'We, sir, are the diverse America'

By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press

Cast member Brandon Victor Dixon gave a speech Friday, telling Mike Pence the multiracial and multicultural cast is worried about the Donald Trump administration.

Army Corps delays Dakota Access pipeline, calls for further review

By Courtney Norris

Construction on that section of the pipeline will not continue until the Army makes a decision.

Gwen's Take on journalism, race and Queen Latifah

By Larisa Epatko

We at the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week lost our dear colleague, Gwen Ifill, to cancer on Monday. During her life, she often was called upon to discuss journalism, but other topics, too: among them, race, music and advice for…

America, I sing you back

By Mary Jo Brooks

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke says her poem, "America, I Sing You Back", was born not out of anger but out of concern and a love for her country.

Black households make more money than white ones in these seven counties

By Tim Henderson, Stateline

These communities are exception. Since the recession, the income gap between black and white households has worsened.

Many minorities frightened of what a Trump presidency means for them

By Jay Reeves, Associated Press

Across America, many members of minority groups awoke Wednesday to something that had seemed an implausible nightmare just a day earlier: President-elect Donald Trump.