Race
Vox’s home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice in America.
Racism has a powerful, sneaky way of inflicting shame.
At least a dozen black children have been shot and killed in the city since April. Their deaths are part of a larger problem.
The ongoing fallout from the NYPD commissioner’s recent decision to fire Daniel Pantaleo, explained.
Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.
We asked historians to debunk slavery’s greatest myths.
What the conservative critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project miss.
The decision comes more than five years after Garner’s death drew national attention and galvanized racial justice activists.
Less than two weeks later, Texas Rangers have found “nothing that warrant[s] a criminal investigation.”
Historian and author Edward E. Baptist explains how slavery helped the US go from a “colonial economy to the second biggest industrial power in the world.”
An oral history of a 1985 police bombing that changed the city forever.
A new study finds that fatal police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in America. The study’s lead author tells Vox why that matters.
It’s a reference to The Godfather.
Michael Brown’s death made America more aware of police violence. But police reform is still a work in progress.
“They were praying, ‘Please! Please! Don’t shoot me.’”
The Democratic presidential candidate says that the federal government must bolster its role in fighting white nationalist violence.
The self-help guru wants to spend $200 billion to $500 billion on the plan, calling it “payment of a debt that has never been paid.”
The Netflix hit created new opportunities for women of color. It also veered far too often into tragedy porn.
In January, Brown was given clemency for a life sentence handed down after she killed a man who solicited her for sex when she was 16 years old.
Why white supremacist violence is rising today — and how it echoes some of the darkest moments of our past.
Days after the shooting, residents and officials are condemning racism — including that of President Trump.
The NYC mayor hopes his policing record can make him president, but critics want him to fire Daniel Pantaleo first.
Stereotypes about race and cleanliness have harmed black people — and their communities — for generations.
Toxic chemicals — and Nazis — are part of US border history.
The former Housing and Urban Development secretary’s latest policy platform addresses disparities affecting Native American communities.
The voters who helped push the congresswomen into office will be an important voting bloc in 2020.
At the 110th gathering of the country’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, politicians continued to make their pitch to black voters.
On the right, race and racism, and the possibility that it’s been a big problem all along.
Philadelphia is firing 13 officers for racist Facebook posts. Other departments could soon follow.
Trump is forcing conservatives to confront the real reason their base hates Rep. Ilhan Omar.
The Department of Justice investigated Garner’s death for years.
James Alex Fields Jr.’s sentence in Virginia comes weeks after he was sentenced to life in prison by a federal court.
The former vice president once called busing “an asinine policy.”
But for many media outlets and politicians, it somehow wasn’t.
Domestic workers don’t have basic labor rights.
“The internet started out as the delicate flower. It had to be cultivated and we had let it see where it was going to go. Now we know where it’s going to go, and it’s time to put in the guardrails.”
Buttigieg is struggling with black voters. He hopes his new “Douglass Plan” can turn things around.
FX’s Pose shows how fiction can ensure the deaths of trans women of color don’t completely erase their lives.
The suspect in Elijah Al-Amin’s killing reportedly said anyone who listens to rap music is “a threat to him and the community.”
The men were exonerated in 2002. Why did Linda Fairstein only face widespread public outcry after When They See Us retold the story?
The administration has better options to enforce immigration and asylum laws.