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Byline: Rachelle Hampton The December of my senior year in high school, I sat in a biology class taught by a teacher who had just written me a letter of [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards A county commissioner in Oklahoma resigned Wednesday amid growing backlash after a local newspaper reported that he and other officials talked about lynching Black people and threatened [...]

Byline: Thomas Gift; Andrew M. Bell; Julie M. Norman When Donald Trump dined with noted white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago recently, CNN and MSNBC covered the story extensively. By [...]

Byline: Karla Adam LONDON - A member of the Buckingham Palace household has resigned from her honorary duties and expressed her 'profound apologies for the hurt caused' after she asked [...]

Byline: Nathan Cardon Today in the context of increasing calls for racial justice, cycling - as a leisure activity and as a way to get around - appears to have [...]

Byline: Andrew Jeong Police in Aurora, Colo., have a pattern of racially biased policing and excessive force, according to a 14-month investigation by a team appointed by the state attorney [...]

Byline: Alexander Hyres On Feb. 9, 2022, Kenneth Akers, a Black military veteran, posted a notice of suspension on Twitter from his daughter's middle school in South Jordan, Utah, a [...]

Byline: David Nakamura Racing to chase after Ahmaud Arbery, Gregory McMichael jumped into a pickup truck with his .357 magnum revolver. He was in such a hurry, he later told [...]

Byline: Silvia Foster-Frau WASHINGTON - Racism is a public health threat that 'affects the health of our entire nation,' the director of America's top public health agency said Friday. In [...]

Byline: Silvia Foster-Frau Black-owned small businesses were much less likely to receive federal coronavirus relief loans from small banks than they were from online lenders, a new study concluded. Researchers [...]

Byline: Peter Neufeld; Keith Findley; Dean Strang A new study from the University of Washington concludes that, over nearly 40 years, medical examiners and coroners undercounted killings by U.S. police [...]

Byline: Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office announced Saturday it would not pursue criminal charges against people associated with the private Facebook group 'Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun County' (ARPLC) [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira The commandant of the Virginia Military Institute, William 'Bill' Wanovich, who came under scrutiny for posing in a photo mocking Hispanics at a campus Halloween party three [...]

Byline: Jaclyn Peiser Months before he fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black jogger, Travis McMichael sent texts and published social media posts that were explicitly racist, prosecutors said [...]

Byline: Michael Errigo Weeks of turmoil surrounding the Iowa football program continued Monday when former standout running back Akrum Wadley alleged racial bias and mistreatment that he said made his [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira Just minutes before a state-ordered investigation into racism at the Virginia Military Institute was released Tuesday, the nation's oldest state-supported military college fired a preemptive shot. VMI's [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira Virginia Military Institute students and graduates have told investigators that 'it is and was a common experience to hear racial slurs among VMI cadets, including use of [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler An expert report unsealed Monday details dozens of instances of alleged racism by Prince George's County police officers that plaintiffs in a federal discrimination lawsuit say reflect [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler A federal judge on Wednesday ended a bitter legal dispute over court records between Prince George's County and a group of Black and Hispanic police officers, ruling [...]

Byline: Ian Shapira The law firm conducting the independent probe of allegations of racism at Virginia Military Institute reported Friday that the college has resisted allowing cadets or faculty to [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler Attorneys in Prince George's County continue to spar over whether an expert report outlining alleged officer misconduct and systemic racial discrimination within the police department should be [...]

Byline: Marc Elrich This is a deeply troubling time in our society. Our failure to deal with more than four centuries of racism has pushed racial tensions to a boiling [...]

Byline: Shayna Jacobs NEW YORK - Johansi Lopez was arrested earlier this year as part of a routine drug enforcement operation in upper Manhattan, but his case has touched off [...]

Byline: Carolyn Y. Johnson A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest black patients, amplifying long-standing [...]

Byline: Debbie Truong For years, advocates complained that students of color in Loudoun County Public Schools had been subjected to racist incidents and hate. They had pushed for more representation [...]

Byline: Katie Shepherd When a Des Moines Register reporter on Tuesday helped expose racist tweets posted years ago by a local man who used his viral Internet fame to raise [...]

Byline: James Hohmann Something is rotten in the Border Patrol, but is it a few bad apples or has a fungal disease infected the whole orchard? That's the nub of [...]

Byline: Des Bieler and Michael Errigo The voice of singer Kate Smith is rapidly disappearing from the world of professional sports. The New York Yankees reportedly confirmed Thursday that they [...]

Byline: Debbie Truong For years, advocates complained that students of color in Loudoun County Public Schools had been subjected to racist incidents and hate. They had pushed for more representation [...]

Byline: William Wan The nation's largest group of pediatricians warned this week that racism can have devastating long-term effects on children's health. A policy statement from the American Academy of [...]

Byline: Allyson ChiuThrusting his arms into the frigid December air and waving them wildly, the bespectacled white Columbia University student bellowed, 'White people are the best thing that happened to [...]

Byline: Christopher Ingraham Federal judges appointed by Republican presidents give black defendants sentences that are, on average, six to seven months longer than the sentences they give to similar white [...]

This appeared in Monday's Washington Post: --- Jordanian diplomat Zeid Raad al-Hussein has spent nearly four years fighting a frustrating battle against genocide, oppression, racism - and the increasing indifference [...]

Byline: Maria Sacchetti Immigration hardliners whose fortunes are rising under the Trump administration have released a confidential, year-old letter from the Department of Justice's immigration courts that blasted left-leaning lawyers [...]

Byline: Joe Davidson WASHINGTON - When the Justice Department released its report on the Baltimore Police Department last week, examples of racial bias were clear: The police: -- employs 'enforcement [...]

The following editorial appears in Thursday's Washington Post. - - - In the Justice Department's damning, astonishing report on the ingrained, systemic racism in Baltimore's police department, one tidbit captures [...]

Byline: Lonnae O'Neal A colleague recently recounted the story of her 21-year-old daughter who had a long wait at a big-city train station. The daughter had scouted the place out [...]

Byline: Jeff Guo Throughout this election season, many have seen Donald Trump's success as an expression of white working-class woes. Trump gave voice to the economic struggles of poor white [...]

Byline: Mark Berman The Chicago Police Department is failing to hold officers accountable and not doing enough to combat a 'justified' lack of trust from the community, according to a [...]

Byline: Sean Sullivan Former secretary of state Colin Powell said Sunday that he was 'shocked but not that surprised' at the findings of a Justice Department report released last week [...]

Byline: Josh Hicks Federal drug agents who questioned a black Pentagon attorney for suspicion of drug trafficking as she prepared to board a plane for government business triggered a critical [...]