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By Linda Lutton, WBEZ; Andrew Fan, City Bureau; Alden Loury, WBEZ Eighty years ago, the federal government drew red lines around Chicago’s black neighborhoods and warned banks not to make home loans there. Today, discrimination in housing is...

June 19, 2020 Statement by Dr. Gail C. Christopher, Executive Director National Collaborative for Health Equity Juneteenth: Honoring our Ancestors Today, the Juneteenth holiday, should be a source of inspiration for all people in America....

By Christopher Flavelle WASHINGTON — Pregnant women exposed to high temperatures or air pollution are more likely to have children who are premature, underweight or stillborn, according to a new paper looking at data from more than 32 million...

By Becky Z. Dernbach Working at a domestic violence shelter in Mankato taught Huda Ahmed how to listen to many different kinds of voices. She encountered women from widely disparate backgrounds and parts of the state, who often had nothing in...

By Amina Khan About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police, according to a new analysis of deaths involving law enforcement officers. That makes them 2.5 times more likely than white men and boys to die...

By Joseph P. Williams A middle-aged black man, his cheek to the pavement on a Minneapolis street, gasping for air and begging for mercy from a white police officer kneeling on his neck. Another black man out for a jog, chased down and shot by an...

By Democracy Now! As protests against police brutality and racism continue across the country, we speak with historian and UCLA professor of African American studies Robin D.G. Kelley. “We’re not here by accident,” Kelley says,...

By Julie Dermansky On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces daily. “What they...

CBS NEWS For generations, Tulsa, Oklahoma had a secret. Mechelle Brown, program coordinator at the city's Greenwood Cultural Center, recalled, "My mother cared for an elderly white man, who on his death bed rambled on about the smoke and the...

By Associated Press GREAT FALLS, MONTANA - As protesters demand justice for George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, many Native Americans in Montana are showing solidarity for black Americans. Floyd, 46, died after...