Race
Vox’s home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice in America.
“I’m sorry that the fight for justice and inequality could not be more convenient for political timetables, but it isn’t.”
People who can’t work from home don’t have the luxury of calculating coronavirus risk.
Protesters describe the excessive force they’ve seen police use in cities across the country.
“I have pretty much felt politically homeless since 2016.”
Polling data shows a seismic shift in white people’s opinions about racism. But opinions aren’t everything.
“The video itself is valuable. The sharing of the video, there is a question of whether it causes more harm than good.”
“The promises made in front of cameras, when lights flashed and the eyes of a nation watched, are no more.”
The loss of 440,000 firms represents 41 percent of black businesses.
The revised definition will include systemic oppression.
Former Secret Service agent Dan Bongino asked Congress to not “attack” police and shred “the thin wall between civilization and chaos.”
The police killing of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, explained.
State violence against unarmed minorities has four times the impact of other homicides.
Protesters have already brought about reforms to address systemic racism and police brutality following George Floyd’s death.
Footage has been released of the 28-year-old black man being fatally shot during a routine traffic stop in New Jersey.
“I can’t breathe,” “save me,” the unarmed black man pleads during a traffic stop.
Ijeoma Oluo on the “perfect storm” that finally engaged white America on racism.
Princeton’s Eddie Glaude Jr. believes that “a moral reckoning is upon us.”
Andre Perry on how lenders and home appraisers contributed to this moment in the fight against racism.
“You’re always communicating about race, whether you talk about it or not.”
Among other measures, Democrats want to end qualified immunity and chokeholds.
The city council is debating radical steps to rebuild law enforcement.
The trauma of witnessing and experiencing racist violence is nothing new for Black children.
Polling shows Joe Biden leading Trump as protests continue.
As with much else in American life, there’s a stark partisan divide.
Buy the books on this reading list at black-owned stores.
The lawsuit faces an uphill battle in a judiciary controlled by Republicans.
“The system was designed this way”: A former prosecutor on the fundamental problem with law enforcement.
“The problem is the way policing was built,” historian Khalil Muhammad says.
The NFL just issued a statement saying it was wrong to censure players who protested police violence.
Ahmaud Arbery’s death and the black Covid-19 morbidity crisis show how much African American lives are treated as expendable capital.
How past movements against police brutality inform the current unrest.
America has a great tradition of civil disobedience. Looters aren’t following it.
There have been uprisings against police brutality and racism before, but this is the country at its exasperation point.
HBO’s upcoming horror series is a supernatural allegory for racism. Its latest trailer ditches the allegory.
Hmong American police officer Tou Thao, who stood by as George Floyd died at the hands of his colleague, has sparked a conversation among Asian Americans.
Performative social media is just a step toward lasting, impactful change. Here’s how to start.
It’s not enough to be “not racist,” experts and educators say.
The MSNBC host discusses “law and order,” police brutality, and America’s two radically unequal criminal justice systems.
Howard Law professor Justin Hansford breaks down how the term has been used to delegitimize protests across the country.
Three experts on what it does and doesn’t mean to be an ally, now and always.