Inequality in America

Aimee Cho found out how to mark the new federal holiday and learn something all at the same time.

Montgomery County is reaching out to people who’ve been targeted for verbal or physical abuse because of their race, ethnicity, religion or other reasons and who may be reluctant to report it to authorities.

As the holiday marking the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S. becomes a national holiday, News4’s “Inequality in America” special will examine the significance of Juneteenth.

Sixty-one years ago this month, several Howard University students and allies walked into the People’s Drug Store on Lee Highway in Arlington. For the next two weeks, they participated in sit-ins to protest white-only lunch counters across the county.  Now a special exhibit and letter-pressed cards mark the moment in Arlington’s ci...

A year after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, his death still weighs heavily on the American conscience.

Howard University Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies Greg Carr feels that one year after George Floyd’s death, there’s a nationwide lack of change for racial equity. “There can’t be any compromise with our common humanity,” he told News4’s Shawn Yancy.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the state between 1854 and 1933 who were denied legal due process

In recent years, some Asian-American dancers have noticed certain ballets portrayed Asians in problematic ways, such as performers wearing face-lightening makeup, known as yellow-face. But now, AAPI dancers are creating change.

George Floyd’s killing ignited a push for police reform in D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Some advocates tell NBC Washington they hope Derek Chauvin’s conviction leads to more change.

Police are stationed around downtown D.C. and National Guard troops will stand guard as the District braces for potential demonstrations once a jury reaches a verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd.  Metropolitan Police Department officers were on patrol Tuesday, with some on foot a...

Anti-Asian hate is personal for News4’s Eun Yang and Aimee Cho. They sat down for a candid conversation about the bias and discrimination they have been subjected to in their daily lives.

Calls for justice once again coming from Black Lives Matter Plaza. News4’s Shomari Stone reports a large crowd took to the streets in D.C.

To understand the legacy of civil rights activist Nia Imani Kuumba, go back to April of 1968, when riots after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. left portions of the District in smoldering ruin.