Race and ethnicity Archives

Two white autoworkers bludgeoned 27-year-old Chinese American Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat during his bachelor party in

States move to shore up voting rights protections after courts erode federal safeguards

ST. PAUL, Minn. — An appeals court ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring

ENID, Okla. — The typical topics for discussion among city leaders in the northwest Oklahoma community of Enid are how

PATERSON, N.J. — Jameek Lowery entered the dimly lit lobby of the city’s police headquarters in a panic. He was

CHICAGO — Chicago plans to close five shelters for migrants in the coming weeks and move nearly 800 people, including

Every day, police in the U.S. rely on common use-of-force tactics that, unlike guns, are meant to stop people without

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Trustees of Tennessee’s only publicly funded historically Black university were removed Thursday under legislation signed into law

FILE – Candles spell out the name of Tyre Nichols during a candlelight vigil for Nichols on the anniversary of

After George Floyd was killed under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, reporters at The Associated Press wanted to know how

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Days after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed an after-school fight on a school district’s diversity