NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michael Williams, head of the Memphis police union, about race relations between the force, its leaders, and its community amid nationwide calls for changes to policing.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Chicago police Sgt. Isaac Lambert and former Chicago officer Lorenzo Davis about the consequences they faced speaking out against fellow officers and police misconduct.
The former candidate for governor, rumored as a possible vice presidential pick for Joe Biden, told NPR: "I speak for anyone who looks like me, wants to become more, and will find themselves blocked."
Cadets donned masks and sat six feet apart as the president delivered a commencement address amid tensions with military leaders over his response to nationwide protests over police violence.
African Americans are hard hit by COVID-19, but in some Texas cities, it's not easy to get a test in minority neighborhoods. An effort by local churches aims to fix this.
Shermichael Singleton, a black man, says he feels lately as if he has found himself in a "no-man's land" — caught between his own principles and a party that he says has wandered astray.
The president had faced fierce criticism for scheduling the event on the holiday commemorating the effective end of slavery, in a city that was home to a horrific incident of racial violence in 1921.
People in Louisville, Kentucky turned out to honor David McAtee. He was shot and killed by a National Guardsman as authorities tried to enforce a curfew order put in place because of protests.