CHICAGO, Ill. -- Historical housing practices in the U.S. have put many communities of color at a disadvantage. It’s not necessarily due to individuals being racist. It’s due to housing policies ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- Tracey Williams-Dillard is the granddaughter of an influential journalist who gave a voice to black communities when they weren’t being heard back in 1934. "He was righting the ...

Denizens of the nation’s colleges and universities take perverse pride in proclaiming that America – including higher education – embodies systemic racism. More insidious than mere racism – ...

*Have you ever heard the expression, “When the White community catches a cold, the Black community gets pneumonia?” It’s commonly said and repeated in the Black communities and is no exaggeration. The ...

Tricia Rose spoke with Linsey Davis about her new book, "Metaracism." Brown University professor Tricia Rose has spent decades studying race, gender, and class in America. Her new book "Metaracism: ...

Re: your June 19 story, “County approves closures of two Santa Paula Hospital units”: Thank you, Tom Kisken, for covering the unfortunate closure of critical services at Santa Paula Hospital. Thank ...

"This whole system was in place to stop 1.2 million Black veterans from taking advantage of probably the greatest social welfare program in the history of this country."-Derek Mosley on the ...

Systemic racism is not rocket science. It’s simply the cumulative efforts to keep a minority at a perpetual disadvantage. While demonizing racism is not new, it is being grossly abused in our upcoming ...

Leanne Liddle knows what it takes to cut it as a police officer, but says tackling racism within the ranks has been her ...

The recent killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer in Minneapolis has sparked a period of national protest and unrest. To many, Floyd’s death exemplifies the brutality of ...