racial justice

Rioters burnt down a previously prosperous district of Black-owned businesses in the North Texas town.

Leaders of a Baptist church in North Carolina ousted the pastor after congregants started leaving. A secret tape provides a rare look at the debate when a message threatens a business model.

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.