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Racial Justice

Examining Race and Racism in America

385 stories published since 2008

He Spent Years Infiltrating White Supremacist Groups. Here’s What He Has to Say About What’s Going on Now.

Trump Called Baltimore “Vermin Infested” While the Federal Government Fails to Clean Up Rodents in Subsidized Housing

Federal Government Wants to Hear From Heirs’ Property Owners

She’s Risked Arrest by Driving With a Suspended License for Seven Years. This Week She Got Some Big News.

We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.

“How in 2019 Do We Not Have Enough Spanish-Speaking Caseworkers?”

Illinois Lawmakers Demand Child Welfare Officials Better Serve Spanish-Speaking Families

Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.

How to Close Heirs’ Property Loopholes

Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt

Inside the Secret Border Patrol Facebook Group Where Agents Joke About Migrant Deaths and Post Sexist Memes

How a Top Chicken Company Cut Off Black Farmers, One by One

How to Clean Up the “Hot Mess” That Is Chicago’s Ticketing and Debt Collection Practices — According to a City Task Force

A Lawsuit Over Ferguson’s “Debtors Prison” Drags On

“Enough Is Enough”: Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska’s Law Enforcement Crisis

Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing

New York City’s Early Voting Plan Will Favor White, Affluent Voters, Advocacy Groups Say

“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour

More Than Me Still Lacks Adequate Systems to Protect Children in Its Care, New Report Says

What Will Come of the More Than Me Rape Scandal?

More Than Me Founder and CEO Katie Meyler Resigns

TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be

HUD Sues Facebook Over Housing Discrimination and Says the Company’s Algorithms Have Made the Problem Worse

Facebook Won’t Let Employers, Landlords or Lenders Discriminate in Ads Anymore

The Tragedy of Baltimore

The Ticket Trap: Front to Back

Chicago Public Schools Monitored Social Media for Signs of Violence, Gang Membership

“Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes

U.S. to Investigate Discrimination Against Native American Students on Montana Reservation

6 Young Men, Given Adult Sentences for “Minor” Infractions, Are Freed in Illinois

District of Despair: On a Montana Reservation, Schools Favor Whites Over Native Americans

On a Reservation, a Second Chance for Prisoners and Their Warden

He Drew His School Mascot — and ICE Labeled Him a Gang Member

Documenting Hate in America: What We Found in 2018

Chicago Task Force Will Take on Ticket and Debt Collection Reform

Chicago Throws Out 23,000 Duplicate Tickets Issued Since 1992 to Motorists Who Didn’t Have Vehicle Stickers

“I Don’t Want to Shoot You, Brother”

Member of White Supremacist Group Pleads Guilty to Assaults at 2017 Rally

An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path Officials Took Is a Mystery.

Brothers Whom Authorities Linked to Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Had Flyer Supporting Neo-Nazi Group, Officials Say

How HUD’s Inspection System Fails Low-Income Tenants Nationwide

Nearly All the Officers in Charge of an Indiana Police Department Have Been Disciplined — Including the Chief Who Keeps Promoting Them

Brothers Who Were Online Friends With Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Had Ties to Violent Neo-Nazis

Chicago City Council Approves Modest First Reforms on Ticketing and Debt

Top Chicago Alderman Adds to Growing Momentum for Ticket and Debt Reform

Why Jeff Sessions’ Final Act Could Have More Impact Than Expected

These Voters Had to Wait for Hours: “It Felt Like a Type of Disenfranchisement”

Georgia Voters Face Hourslong Waits as State Scrambles to Accommodate Turnout

Houston Poll Worker Hurls Racist Remarks, Faces Criminal Charge

Chicago Considers Wiping Away Old Ticket Debt for Motorists Who File for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy