racism

The immunologist who leads the COVID-19 response in the United States says “the undeniable effects of racism” have led to unacceptable health disparities

The Supreme Court is considering whether to hear the case of a Black man who says he suffered discrimination because the racial slur was carved into the wall of a hospital elevator where he worked.

President Biden urged Congress to pass a police reform bill by next month, the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death.

In Sen. Tim Scott’s rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s address to Congress, the Republican from South Carolina discussed his own experience with discrimination and said ‘people are making money and gaining power by pretending we haven’t made any progress at all.’

Many parents are making steps to talk to their children about race and police brutality. News4’s Doreen Gentzler speaks with a child and adolescent psychologist about how to approach the subjects.

You would think that in the land of cosplay, where millions across the globe dress up as their favorite fictional characters from across the spectrum of television, film and comics, there would be wide acceptance and little judgment. It is, after all, just make-believe. But if you think that you would be dead wrong.

The refrain from American blues singer and guitarist Big Bill Broonzy can be heard in his 1951 song “Black, Brown and White” and shed light on the widespread discrimination against Black Americans in general and darker-skinned Black people in particular. The jingle may be unfamiliar to some. But its meaning is painfully clear.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday called racism a “serious threat” to public health, becoming the latest, and largest, U.S.-based health agency to single out racism as having a “profound and negative impact on communities of color” and contributing to disproportionate mortality rates among people of color, NBC News reports. “Confronting the impact of racism will...

The pledge comes amid national attention on anti-Asian violence in the U.S. and fundraising efforts following the fatal Atlanta shootings.

America’s Black politicians have a long history of calling out the nation’s racism

In the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed six Asian women in the Atlanta area, the Black and Asian communities are putting aside historical tensions to come together in common cause to fight white supremacy and violence. NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo attended a New York City rally to talk to protesters from both communities about why solidarity is so...

The mother of a Black sixth-grader filed a legal claim against the Palmdale School District Thursday over an alleged racist rant directed at her son and his family by a teacher who failed to sign off Zoom following a student-teacher session.

The year was 2019 and Binta Diallo was looking for a partner. To be more specific, Diallo, 30, was looking for a potential husband. In that pursuit, the young Muslim woman from West Africa did what many Millennials do. She went online.

Colorism, a prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, plays a role in most communities of color. But Binta Diallo says the issue is particularly pervasive in Muslim relationships. So she created a blind matchmaking service to fight it.

A shocking and offensive new video shows a woman go on a racist rant toward a Black cashier at a Manhattan bakery after she refused to put on a mask while placing an order.

The family of a Black teenager who was falsely accused of stealing a woman’s cellphone in a New York City hotel last December filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the woman and the hotel engaged in racial profiling.

Some highly active vaccine clinics are far away from communities of color. Doses aren’t being distributed at a level that reflects the greater COVID-19 dangers for people in those communities. Epidemiologist Camara Phyllis-Jones breaks down the issue and says “we can dismantle this system.”

To many, it seems like a simple question: “Where are you from?” But when that query is posed to someone who is Asian American, it shows an unconscious bias. Writer Kurt Bardella joined LX News to explain why it’s time to stop this form of “passive racism.”

In the wake of the Atlanta-area shootings that killed six Asian women last week, many Asian Americans across the country are coming to terms with the covert, and sometimes overt, racism they’ve experienced over a lifetime. NBCLX contributor Michelle Park spoke to fellow Asian Americans about the pain they’ve experienced over the past year — and why staying silent is...

Examples of solidarity between the Black and Asian communities in the U.S. date back to the 19th century. And tensions between the two groups also stretch back generations. LX News host Jobeth Devera recounts the history of this complicated relationship and talks to Catherine Ceniza Choy, an ethnic studies professor from UC Berkeley, about what comes next for the solidarity...