Race
Vox’s home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice in America.
Local governments and universities are taking reparations into their own hands. But can these efforts be successful or enough?
Adolph Reed on why talk about reparations is counterproductive.
How the US can create a better future by reconciling the past.
What happens if the Court rejects the rule of law?
A task force is calling on the state to provide “comprehensive reparations” to Black Americans.
Reform advocates say there are other ways to respond to crimes — from rehabilitation to trauma treatment.
The flag’s designer shares the story and inspiration for his design.
The Constitution was written to thwart Black freedom. But we can change the rules.
Keeping the promise of “40 acres and a mule” might have transformed Black American lives. A movement rages on.
Freedom, Georgia, is a utopian vision for Black life in America.
From enslavement to the “Black tax,” Black people have been asked to pay for freedom for far too long.
The holiday observes the emancipation of enslaved people. Let it also be a time to consider the hypocrisies of the American experiment.
Real World: Homecoming is a second chance for the seminal series, and for New Orleans castmate Melissa Beck.
Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board is a testament to just how much Republicans have radicalized on race.
The meat industry’s environmental racism problem, explained.
President Biden just made lynching a federal hate crime after more than 100 years of legislative failure.
Like wife, like husband.
Commissions are a common tool to expose atrocities after war and genocide. Reconciliation is harder to come by.
A guaranteed income program designed by and for Black women.
The three white defendants were already convicted in the killing of the unarmed Black jogger.
An MLK scholar on how we lost sight of King’s nuanced politics — and how we can revive them today.
Goldberg’s comments reflect a growing national ignorance about the Holocaust. Here’s how to move forward.
The Court takes up its first big redistricting case since Republicans gained a 6-3 supermajority. What could go wrong?
Breyer’s best work was often the work you never knew about.
The conservative Court adds more cases to its growing culture war docket.
In her book The Disordered Cosmos, Black queer scientist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein argues that physics can be more universal.
Prosecutors made no mention of the slain 25-year-old’s race until the very end of the trial.
The three white men who shot the 25-year-old Black man dead won’t walk free.
The 18-year-old who shot three men at a protest took the stand and resorted to a tried-and-true strategy for white men in trouble.
After George Floyd’s death, many white Americans formed book clubs. A year later, they’re wondering, “What now?”
In Rebecca Hall’s film, Nella Larsen’s story comes to life in black and white.
As the trial over the killing of Arbery continues, experts say it’s time to rethink pro-vigilante laws across the country.
John McWhorter on white privilege, Black communities, and the excesses of wokeness.
It took decades and dozens of allegations for the singer’s survivors to be heard. Activists aren’t sure the verdict is a turning point.
The Biden administration is continuing a long history of exclusionary policy against Haitian asylum seekers.
Educators are confused about how to navigate new laws that ban discussions about race in the classroom.
The state embraces a reform proposed by Justice Thurgood Marshall more than three decades ago.
For generations, forces worked to curtail Black freedom and joy. The Vineyard proved a safe place.
How the number of police officers in schools skyrocketed in recent decades.
Deb Haaland is investigating the history of hundreds of boarding schools that tried to “Kill the Indian, save the man.”