Race

The Bronx apartment building stands a day after a fire swept through the complex where 8 of the 17 people who died were children.

National

Amid a housing crisis, renters challenge firms they say are being exploitative

3:21pm February 10, 2022

by Marisa Peñaloza

Low-income housing is in crisis - corporate landlords are squeezing renters with higher rents in often unsafe housing units. Renters are fighting back

Gary Chambers Jr., pictured in January 2021, is running for one of Louisiana's seats in the U.S. Senate. He's made headlines with his first two campaign ads.

La. Senate candidate Gary Chambers burns a Confederate flag in his new campaign ad

12:57pm February 10, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Louisiana made headlines last month by smoking marijuana in a campaign ad. Now he's back with another lighter and a message about gerrymandering.

3rd grader Dana Boone finds an innovative way to mark Black History Month

6:49pm February 09, 2022

With the help of his mom, Dana Boone created the Periodic Table of Black History. Rather than elements, this table contains 90 Black history-makers, activists and innovators.

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Podcaster and comic Joe Rogan, who also serves as a mixed martial arts commentator, looks on at a UFC fight in 2015.

Arts

I have a name for what fueled Joe Rogan's new scandal: Bigotry Denial Syndrome

5:59pm February 09, 2022

by Eric Deggans

Joe Rogan doesn't think of himself as a racist. But that doesn't mean his language isn't harmful.

National

Federal trial will focus on whether race was a motive in Ahmaud Arbery's death

4:23pm February 09, 2022

by Carrie Johnson

The Justice Department's federal civil rights case against the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery began this week. Here's a look at that trial and the civil rights agenda for Department of Justice in 2022.

Black voters in Alabama say Supreme Court decision dilutes their voting power

4:23pm February 09, 2022

by Debbie Elliott

African-American voters in Alabama say a Supreme Court decision dilutes their voting power. Republican leaders say race should not be the predominant factor for drawing congressional district lines.

The Supreme Court pictured in a photo from 2021. Justice Steven Breyer is set to retire at the end of the term. President Joe Biden has pledged to seat a Black woman on the court.

National

A Black woman on the High Court is a good start. But representation has limits.

8:31am February 09, 2022

by Sandhya Dirks

With President Biden set to appoint the first Black woman Supreme Court Justice, Black women in the legal profession reflect on the limits and promises of representation.

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Engraved portrait of Abraham Galloway from William Still's The Underground Railroad, published in 1872.

Books
Arts

Abraham Galloway is the Black figure from the Civil War you should know about

8:19pm February 08, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Galloway escaped enslavement, became a Union spy and helped recruit thousands of Black soldiers to fight with the North, but his name has been largely left out of the Civil War narrative.

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Spelman College in Atlanta, seen in October 2020, was among the historically Black colleges and universities that received bomb threats last week.

School leaders say HBCUs are undeterred after a series of bomb threats

4:45pm February 08, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

"We have to show that we are not afraid," Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough says. The FBI is probing the threats as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes.

National

How Black activists used lynching souvenirs to expose American violence

12:04pm February 08, 2022

NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Christine Turner, the filmmaker behind the short documentary, Lynching Postcards: 'Token of A Great Day,' about her film and its present-day resonance.

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