Race

Members of the Black Equity Coalition, a grassroots team of researchers and advocates, meet regularly to discuss how they can use data to uncover life-threatening disparities between white and Black Pittsburgh. Clockwise, from top left are Kellie Ware, Ka

Data analysts proved what Black Pittsburgh knew about COVID's racial disparities

1:56pm December 07, 2021

by Christine Spolar

Community leaders saw early in the pandemic that the city's residents of color were being hit hard by COVID-19. They worked with data analysts to show just how hard, where and why.

National

Justice Department to sue Texas over the state's redistricting plans

5:27am December 07, 2021

by Ashley Lopez

The Department of Justice has announced it is suing Texas for discriminating against people of color when lawmakers drew the state's new voting districts.

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Chalinda Hatcher lost her 15-year-old daughter, Shamara Young, who was shot and killed in Oakland, Calif., in October. Hatcher wants the city to step up and help.

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Her daughter was killed and now this mom is calling on Oakland to step up and help

10:21am December 06, 2021

by Eric Westervelt

The surge in gun violence and homicide mirrors in Oakland, Calif., mirrors an uptick in killings nationally as many cities are on track to match or surpass last year's terrible murder toll.

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Brandon Michael Hall, LaChanze and Chuck Cooper in Roundabout Theatre Company's Trouble in Mind.

Arts

A prescient play about race in America has its long-overdue Broadway premiere

6:00am December 06, 2021

by Jeff Lunden

Playwright Alice Childress took an unflinching look at racism in society and in the theater with "Trouble in Mind" in 1955. Now in its overdue Broadway premiere, the play proves prescient and timely.

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Communities of color face disproportionate exposure to pollution

8:09am December 05, 2021

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Michael S. Regan, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, about the Biden administration's approach to environmental justice.

Stewart Indian School students are seen in a classroom in Carson, Nev., in an undated photo. The state of Nevada plans to fully cooperate with federal efforts to investigate the history of Native American boarding schools.

Nevada's governor apologizes for the state's past role in Indigenous schools

9:26am December 04, 2021

by The Associated Press

Gov. Steve Sisolak apologized on behalf of his state and promised to cooperate with an investigation of the federal government's past policies and oversight of Native American boarding schools.

Thriving Black-owned businesses 'righting the wrongs of the past' in rural Mississippi

7:13pm December 03, 2021

by Kirk Siegler

In one of the poorest rural regions of the country's poorest state, a Black entrepreneur is helping Black owned businesses open and thrive even during the pandemic.

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Kim Potter, a former Brooklyn Center, Minn., police officer, has said she meant to use a Taser instead of a handgun when she shot and killed Daunte Wright on April 11.

National

Kim Potter's trial in Daunte Wright's death will have a mostly white jury

3:02pm December 03, 2021

by The Associated Press

Potter, a white former police officer, says she drew her gun by mistake when she fatally shot Wright, a Black motorist. Of the first 12 jurors seated, one identifies as Black and two as Asian.

Carolyn DeFord is pictured with her daughter and mother, Leona Kinsey, in La Grande, Ore., in their last photograph together before Kinsey disappeared in October 1999.

National

Her mother went missing 22 years ago. Now she finds comfort in the past and future

1:19pm December 03, 2021

The disappearance of Carolyn DeFord's mother is among countless cases of missing Indigenous women. Without closure, DeFord continues to grieve. But a special memory and a new grandson give her hope.

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Education

Loretta J. Ross: What if we called people in, rather than calling them out?

11:58am December 03, 2021

How can we have more productive conversations with people we vehemently disagree with? Civil rights activist Loretta J. Ross gives us the tools to call people in—instead of calling them out.

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