Race

Investigators work the scene last month after the mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y.

National

DOJ charges Buffalo gunman with hate crimes, and says he apologized to a white victim

1:22pm June 15, 2022

by Bill Chappell

The federal complaint gives a new account of Payton Gendron's movements in the store. It also alleges that he said "Sorry" to at least one of his white victims.

Vernetta Henson sits outside Union Baptist Church in Africatown. The church was started by Clotilda survivors in 1869. To her left is the bust of Cudjoe Lewis, one of the community's founder.

National

Exploring the Clotilda, the last known slave ship in the U.S., brings hope

5:11am June 15, 2022

The discovery of the ship on an Alabama river bottom has fostered a renewed hope for descendants of the Clotilda's captives, and the community they founded called Africatown.

Former U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham arrives at a debate for Democrats seeking their party's nomination in South Carolina's governor's race on Friday, June 10, 2022, in Columbia, S.C.

Democrat Joe Cunningham to face Republican Henry McMaster in S.C. race for governor

10:27pm June 14, 2022

by Acacia Squires

Former Congressman Joe Cunningham, a Democrat who once flipped a congressional seat in deep-red South Carolina, will face Republican Gov. Henry McMaster in the race for governor in November.

Peter Baker walks near the clubhouse at Lake Ivanhoe on Saturday, April 16, 2022.

National

A small Wisconsin town is honored as the state's first Black-founded

3:38pm June 14, 2022

by Diane Bezucha

The Lake Ivanhoe community was envisioned a century ago as the first Black-founded settlement in Wisconsin. A group of residents is working to erect a marker to make sure this history is noted.

Why The Racial Wealth Gap Is So Hard To Close

6:30am June 14, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

A new study shows the simple math of why — absent radical measures — America's racial wealth gap won't be closing anytime soon.

Oakland City Hall is bathed in red light in a memorial to the people who have died from COVID-19 throughout the country in Oakland, Calif. in January 2021.

Oakland, Calif. declares racism a public health crisis

3:54pm June 13, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Oakland City Council votes without opposition to declare the public health crisis and sets aside up to $350,000 for consulting and a data analyst.

Books

Kendi's book, 'How to Raise an Anti-Racist,' is part study, part memoir

6:14am June 13, 2022

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Ibram X. Kendi about structural racism, and the debate over how to teach children about racism. His latest book is: How to Raise an Anti-Racist.

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James Jackson, Jr., L. Morgan Lee, Antwayn Hopper, John-Andrew Morrison and Jason Veasey play the self-lacerating thoughts of Usher (Jaquel Spivey) in A Strange Loop.

How 'A Strange Loop' fits into Black theater legacies

6:00am June 11, 2022

by Nathan Pugh

The musical — which is up for 11 Tony Awards this Sunday — subverts and reimagines decades of Black theater and pop culture.

Gordon Parks' photography masterfully captured the range of Black life in America

2:15pm June 10, 2022

by Miranda Mazariegos

One of the country's most celebrated photographers, Gordon Parks used his camera as a weapon against racial injustice. Howard University has recently acquired more than 250 of Parks' images.

Complex Taiwanese and Chinese identities are exposed after gunman enters church

8:41am June 09, 2022

by Emily Feng

A gunman who killed one man and shot others exposes the complex identities of Taiwanese and Chinese people.

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