racial justice

So far, the city has settled 19 lawsuits after police injured scores of demonstrators in 2020.

An international group of researchers has voted to modify the scientific names of more than 200 plant species whose names carry a derogatory word.

The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.

Joan Means Khabele was one of the first Black women to jump into the pool in protest of segregation.

Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Confederacy.

A project in Charlottesville, Va. seeks to upend the narrative around the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that was the center of deadly white nationalist protests there in 2017.

Harvard Law School professor and noted defense attorney Charles Ogletree has died at age 70.

The 14-year-old was killed by two white men in 1955 after a white woman accused him of flirting with her. The medal will be on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Tulsa, Okla., has offered a blueprint, however imperfect, for how to confront a history of racial violence. In neighboring Arkansas, the city of Elaine has found the Tulsa model hard to replicate.

More than a year after Gov. Ralph Northam ordered the 12-ton statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to be removed, it was lifted from its pedestal in Richmond, Va., to be placed into storage.