Investigative Reporting on Racial Justice

An Ocean Apart, But United in Concerns About Hate Crimes

by Patrick G. Lee,

Jan. 9, 2017, 4:46 p.m. EST

Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue of Hate Crimes Against Whites

by Joe Sexton,

Jan. 5, 2017, 5:39 p.m. EST

Rare Track Record: NYPD’s History Chronicling Hate Crimes

by Jessica Huseman,

Dec. 21, 2016, 1:50 p.m. EST

‘What’s Going On, Daddy’: A Reporter on the Hate Beat Finds 2 Very Local Stories

by A.C. Thompson,

Dec. 19, 2016, 12:51 p.m. EST

‘As a White Nationalist, What Do You Do?’

by A.C. Thompson,

Dec. 13, 2016, 3 p.m. EST

In An Ugly Election Result, Hate Surges Online

by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke,

Nov. 23, 2016, 5:58 p.m. EST

Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them

by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke,

Nov. 15, 2016, 3:36 p.m. EST

Facebook Says it Will Stop Allowing Some Advertisers to Exclude Users by Race

by Julia Angwin,

Nov. 11, 2016, 10 a.m. EST

In Iowa, Latino College Students Shaken Up by Racist Incident

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Nov. 8, 2016, 9:55 p.m. EST

HUD Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About Facebook’s Ethnic Targeting

by Stephen Engelberg,

Nov. 7, 2016, 4:27 p.m. EST

Lawmakers to Facebook: Don’t Let Advertisers Exclude by Race

by Eric Umansky,

Nov. 3, 2016, 8 a.m. EDT

Latino Voters Face Long Lines in Texas, Florida

Claudia Báez for ProPublica and Rachel Glickhouse, Univision News,

Oct. 28, 2016, 10 p.m. EDT

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

by Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.,

Oct. 28, 2016, 1 p.m. EDT

Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to Be Racist

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.,

Oct. 19, 2016, 8 a.m. EDT

‘Only White People,’ Said the Little Girl

by Topher Sanders,

Oct. 13, 2016, 7:29 a.m. EDT

Discrimination by Design

by Lena V. Groeger,

Sept. 1, 2016, 1 p.m. EDT

Busted

Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders,

July 7, 2016, 5 a.m. EDT

Why Liberal New York City’s Schools Are Among the Nation’s Most Segregated

by Heather Vogell,

June 27, 2016, 8 a.m. EDT

How We Decided to Test Racial Bias in Algorithms

by Adam Harris,

May 31, 2016, 10:08 a.m. EDT

What Algorithmic Injustice Looks Like in Real Life

by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

May 25, 2016, 6:47 a.m. EDT

Machine Bias

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

May 23, 2016, 8 a.m. EDT

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

May 23, 2016, 7:59 a.m. EDT

How Residents Get Ensnared by NYPD Nuisance Abatement Cases

by Joaquin Sapien,

May 2, 2016, 11:15 a.m. EDT

NYPD Chief: Police ‘Will Continue to Aggressively Enforce Nuisance Abatement’

by Sarah Ryley and Rocco Parascandola for ProPublica,

April 28, 2016, 3:16 p.m. EDT

The Best MuckReads on America’s Troubled History With Race

by Adam Harris,

Feb. 24, 2016, 1:49 p.m. EST

NYPD to Change How Police Use Nuisance Abatement Law

by Ginger Adams Otis and Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Feb. 11, 2016, 12:01 p.m. EST

Officials Outraged After ‘Shocking’ Report on NYPD Kicking People Out of Homes

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Feb. 8, 2016, 8:59 a.m. EST

The NYPD Is Kicking People Out of Their Homes, Even if They Haven’t Committed a Crime

by Sarah Ryley, special to ProPublica,

Feb. 5, 2016, 9 a.m. EST

How We Did Our Analysis of New York City Nuisance Abatement Cases

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Feb. 5, 2016, 9 a.m. EST

Racist Temp Hiring, a Guest Worker Empire and More in Muckreads Weekly

by Adam Harris,

Jan. 8, 2016, 7:35 p.m. EST

Why Small Debts Matter So Much To Black Lives

by Paul Kiel,

Dec. 31, 2015, 9 a.m. EST

Why Counting Mass Shootings is a Bad Way to Understand Gun Violence in America

by Lois Beckett,

Dec. 4, 2015, 3:25 p.m. EST

To Address Race Gap, Missouri AG Pushes Debt Collection Fixes

by Paul Kiel,

Dec. 3, 2015, 2:32 p.m. EST

How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives

Lois Beckett,

Nov. 24, 2015, 11:55 a.m. EST

The Color of Debt

by Al Shaw, Annie Waldman and Paul Kiel,

Oct. 8, 2015, 8 a.m. EDT

How We Analyzed Racial Disparity in Debt Collection Lawsuits

Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman,

Oct. 8, 2015, 8 a.m. EDT

The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods

Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman,

Oct. 8, 2015, 8 a.m. EDT

Did the Famous Desegregation of Yonkers Actually Work?

by Cynthia Gordy Giwa,

Sept. 8, 2015, 11:11 a.m. EDT

The Tiger Mom Tax: Asians Are Nearly Twice as Likely to Get a Higher Price from Princeton Review

by Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Jeff Larson,

Sept. 1, 2015, 10 a.m. EDT

Georgia is Segregating Troublesome Kids in Schools Used During Jim Crow

by Marian Wang,

July 29, 2015, 2:02 p.m. EDT

May It Displease the Court: Race and Justice Sotomayor

by ProPublica,

July 8, 2015, 10:54 a.m. EDT

6 Tips for Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes

by Julia Angwin,

June 18, 2015, 8 a.m. EDT

Racist Posts on NY Cop Blog Raise Ire at Time of Tension

by Joaquin Sapien,

April 16, 2015, 1:39 p.m. EDT

Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why.

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

March 4, 2015, 9:14 p.m. EST

Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

Feb. 9, 2015, 12:06 p.m. EST

Supreme Court’s Latest Race Case: Housing Discrimination

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

Jan. 21, 2015, 12:18 p.m. EST

A National Survey of School Desegregation Orders

by Yue Qiu,

Dec. 23, 2014, 1:11 p.m. EST

Podcast: Ferguson’s Untold Tragedy of School Segregation

by Sara Afzal,

Dec. 22, 2014, 4:07 p.m. EST

How Do You Experience Segregation? Tell Us What #SegregationIs Where You Live

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

Dec. 19, 2014, 11 a.m. EST

School Segregation, the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson

Nikole Hannah-Jones,

Dec. 19, 2014, 11 a.m. EST