Race
Vox’s home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice in America.
“The question you have to ask yourself is: Why are there so many people in our society who don’t have a lot to lose?” says sociologist Darnell Hunt.
Heather Ann Thompson explains what’s changed and what has stayed the same.
Throughout US history, Black people have endured a medical system that has been simultaneously exploitative and dismissive.
Films that challenge and rewire the imagination.
Uprisings in DC show the danger of Trump’s insistence for troops at protests.
The author of “How to Be an Antiracist” explains how the George Floyd protests are a result of “America’s nightmare.”
David McAtee’s death came amid violence by police at protests around the country.
The US’s system of policing, criminal justice, and incarceration didn’t just come from nowhere. And to change it, we have to understand it.
He lost his job due to the coronavirus shutdown. Then he was killed by police.
The left-wing group is back in the news. An expert explains where they come from and what they want.
In an interview, Philonise Floyd demanded the arrest of all the former police officers involved in George Floyd’s death.
It’s symbolic of Trump’s leadership during this highly tense time.
The social upheaval of the 1960s meets the political polarization and institutional dysfunction of the present.
The mayor has said the police acted with restraint, but has also called for an investigation into the van incident.
Police responded to protests across the nation with excessive force.
With pardons, abdication of oversight, harsh rhetoric, and executive orders, the Trump administration has encouraged violent policing.
The rapper and activist spoke about organizing to combat police violence.
The protests will eventually end. But state-sanctioned violence against black Americans won’t.
The presumptive Democratic nominee called for every American to grapple with the country’s systemic racism.
Minneapolis sees a third night of unrest after the fatal arrest of the unarmed black man.
The officer pinned down Floyd by the neck with his knee as the black man yelled, “I can’t breathe!”
Swift accuses Trump of “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency.”
From Minneapolis to New York City.
In Minneapolis, police responded to a protest about police violence with more violence.
Drew Dixon, Sherri Hines, and Sil Lai Abrams, whose rape allegations against Russell Simmons are the crux of a new HBO doc, discuss why they told their stories — and why some women never do.
Biden has since apologized for his comments.
Ahmaud Arbery was killed in the street by white men. That’s how lynchings work.
The length of time is less important than what prosecutors do with it, Wake Forest professor Ronald Wright says.
The Emmett Till Antilynching Act would designate lynching as a federal crime for the first time in US history.
With redistricting and public funds on the line, advocacy groups are rethinking outreach during the coronavirus crisis.
Would Ahmaud Arbery’s story have been told without a violent video?
The threat of being killed merely for existing can shape black men’s lives.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on how the real estate industry undermined black homeownership.
The liberal justices gave up an important fight over how to prove discrimination.
24 percent of black men approve of Trump. Just 6 percent of black women do. Why?
The coronavirus is much more than a public health problem.
Director Jacqueline Olive wanted audiences to “have a stake” in understanding communities traumatized by violence.
We debate.
A new project reveals that combining race and class can be a winning message for Democrats in November and beyond.
Six historians weigh in on the biggest misconceptions about Black history, including the Tuskegee experiment and enslaved people’s finances.