Race
Vox’s home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice in America.
Though media reports of the protests have dwindled, organized demonstrations for racial justice are still underway.
Even with deep disagreements, a promising dialogue is emerging around defunding police services not focused on fighting crime.
The 26-year-old EMT was killed by police in her home in March. Calls for justice only continue to grow.
What protests in a conservative enclave of California tell us about a changing America.
“I’m a believer in divine intervention. ... I was made Black on purpose and as a person of conservative construct.”
The power of the movement lies in making the public, and politicians, take notice.
The movie underlines what makes the musical radical.
“Any movement that goes to the root of things is radical.”
L’Oréal, Unilever, and others are changing names or pulling skin-whitening products as the global racial reckoning continues.
Mississippi’s state flag is coming down, but the racism that created it remains.
Black Americans are more likely to be killed by police. The police are rarely held accountable.
There is no “one size fits all” language when it comes to talking about race.
Nearly a year after McClain’s death, Colorado’s governor has reopened the case.
To sustain the current anti-racism movement, look to the past, says professor Megan Ming Francis.
It’s not expected to go anywhere in the Senate, however.
Once Georgia’s bill is signed, there will just be three states without hate crime laws on the books in the US.
The white men arrested in the shooting have been indicted on murder charges.
The Democratic Party is starting to look more like Democratic voters.
Noose incidents are uncoincidentally on the rise as protesters continue to demand justice for Black lives.
How Black Lives Matter finally pushed Instagram into politics.
The 1968 government-sponsored report reveals that demands from activists around policing are nothing new.
For generations, a single street paying homage to Robert E. Lee and his Confederate allies has upheld Richmond’s racist foundations. Change is coming.
How identity politics changed the Democratic Party — for the better.
The president’s rhetoric is seen as fueling a surge in harassment toward Asian Americans.
And four other ways people are using social media to support nationwide protests.
A historian explains the larger context surrounding the deaths of Robert Fuller and other black Americans.
The backlash against the Minnesota Freedom Fund, explained.
The problem with policing is about more than violence. It’s about living a black life in fear.
A historian explains the country’s true independence day.
Listen to everything from what “defund the police” really means to how the world views these protests.
Richmond sparred with Matt Gaetz and other Republicans as they debated the House bill.
Companies bringing in new leaders to help with race might also be setting them up to fail.
Longstanding inequalities have led to the current wave of protests.
“The football players are looking at this and going, ‘Wait a second, they need us at this point even more than we need them.’”
What if nonviolence wasn’t an inhuman standard demanded of the powerless, but an ethic upon which we reimagined the state?
The order, which is narrower than House Democrats’ reform bill, will create a national database of police misconduct, among other actions.
The 19-year-old’s death underscores why gender violence needs to be part of the Black Lives Matter narrative.
Why President Trump’s choice of Tulsa for his latest rally is controversial.
“We’ve got a tremendous opportunity to restructure”: Jim Clyburn on the current moment.
In “8:46,” named for the length of time of George Floyd’s killing, Chappelle turns his stage into a somber pulpit.