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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as a jury finds him guilty of all charges in his trial for second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. April 20, 2021 in a still image from video. Pool via REUTERS

Will the Derek Chauvin conviction for murdering George Floyd change policing?

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Hurricane Katrina holdout Creek sits on the porch of his house in front of the Memorial Medical Center of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina holdout Joshua Creek sits on the porch of his house in front of the Memorial Medical Center of New Orleans September 13, 2005. The discovery of at least 44 bodies in an abandoned hospital in New Orleans raised new questions about the response to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday as President George W. Bush took full responsibility for government failures in handling the disaster. Pictures of the Year 2005 REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Will the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan address structural inequality?

Kenneth K. Wong

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Hundreds of people rally in Columbus Park of Chinatown against hate crime in support of Asian communities in New York on April 3, 2021. Volunteers for Safe Chinatown organization, U. S. Representative Grace Ming, Senate Leader Charles Schumer, City Council member Margaret Chin and many others attended and speak against hate crimes. (Photo by Lev Radin/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Why Democrats and Republicans would benefit from hate crime protections for Asian Americans

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

A member of the 1199SEIU union, the nation's largest healthcare workers' union, kneels for eight minutes and 46 seconds of silence, during a vigil and walkout action at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in a protest against racial inequality in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Now is the time to diversify the nation’s medical workforce. Here’s how.

Ngozi F. Anachebe

Monday, April 12, 2021

Tonya Johnson, Big Queen of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Indian Tribe, who went to high school with Baton Rouge police officer Montrell Jackson, who was shot and killed Sunday morning, attends a vigil in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S. July 19, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman

Indigenous communities demonstrate innovation and strength despite unequal losses during COVID-19

Victoria M. O’Keefe and Melissa L. Walls

Friday, April 2, 2021

A border patrol agent apprehends a woman and a man after they were caught illegally crossing into the U.S. border from Mexico near McAllen, Texas, U.S., May 2, 2018. Reuters photographer Adrees Latif: "One could hardly tell there were people lying in the brush even as a U.S. Border Patrol agent stood over these migrants. They were tracked into the brush by their shoe prints. The group of nine had taken cover overnight and were apprehended the following morning for illegally crossing into the U.S. from Mexico." REUTERS/Adrees Latif SEARCH "IMMIGRATION POY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2018 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

US immigration policy: A classic, unappreciated example of structural racism

Charles Kamasaki

Friday, March 26, 2021

Asian hate crimes rally

Why is it so hard for America to designate domestic terrorism and hate crimes?

Thursday, March 18, 2021

A Long Island Railroad train conductor looks at a train schedule aboard a train bound for New York July 17, 2014. A threatened strike on New York's Long Island Rail Road has been averted after a tentative contract agreement was reached on Thursday, one of the labor unions involved in the negotiations said on its website. The state-controlled Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the coalition of eight unions representing about 5,400 rail workers have been involved in fraught negotiations to replace a workers' contract that expired in 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

6 policies to boost employment for Black men

Harry J. Holzer

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Protesters holding placards that read "black+brown+Asian solidarity" during the demonstration.End The Violence Towards Asians rally in Washington Square Park. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, violence towards Asian Americans has increased at a much higher rate than previous years. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) reported a 1,900% increase in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020. (Photo by Ron Adar / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Why the trope of Black-Asian conflict in the face of anti-Asian violence dismisses solidarity

Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Edwin Avent (C) participates with students in a learning exercise at a summer session of a charter school called Baltimore Collegiate School for Boys in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., July 30, 2019. Avent co-founded Black Professional Men Inc. in 1991 to lift up African-American men, offering lessons in topics from financial literacy to rap music. Black Professional Men has mentored 3,000 boys and awarded 225 college scholarships, using education and positive reinforcement to divert youth away from gangs, drugs and guns. "What we're doing is building black boys into the next generation of doctors, lawyers, scientists and leaders, maybe even the next Barack Obama," said Avent. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

Social networks and economic mobility–what the findings reveal

Sarah Nzau, Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, and Kwadwo Frimpong

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Representative Mondaire Jones (D-NY) during a press conference about H.R. 1 at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday March 3, 2021. Today the House will vote on H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021, an election reform bill pushed by Democrats, as Congressional negotiations over additional COVID relief continue. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

The case for a civil rights exception to the filibuster

Monday, March 8, 2021

More than 200 people gathered on Washington Square Park to rally in support Aisian community, against hate crime and white nationalism. Rally held in New York on February 20, 2021. Rally was organized by ANTIFA (anti-fascist movement) and Abolitionist Community. A woman wears mask with message 'Hate is A Virus End White Supremacy'. (Photo by Lev Radin/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Re-imagining safety, belonging, and justice in the wake of anti-Asian violence

Jennifer Lee and Tiffany Huang

Monday, March 1, 2021

Dana Clark and her 18-month-old son Mason wait in line at City Hall as early voting begins for the upcoming presidential election in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., October 16, 2020. Photographer Kathleen Flynn: "Teacher Dana Clark was adjusting a "safety pod" over her and her son as I passed the voting line on Oct. 16, the first day of early voting in New Orleans. She had bought the pod to use in the classroom with her fifth-grade students, hoping to protect them, as well as her own kids and her husband, who has underlying health issues, from COVID-19. The image, which garnered 46k likes on Twitter, seemed to express a convergence of widely felt emotions: fear of contagion, hope for a child's future, pressures on educators and a wish for racial justice." REUTERS/Kathleen Flynn/File photo SEARCH "ELECTIONS PHOTOGRAPHERS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Black moms facing the toughest childcare crunch: How policy can help

Ember Smith and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

A girl gets an African-Colombian hairstyle during the Afro-hairstyles X Competition in Cali June 1, 2014. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga (COLOMBIA - Tags: SOCIETY)

Penalizing Black hair in the name of academic success is undeniably racist, unfounded, and against the law

Howard Henderson and Jennifer Wyatt Bourgeois

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

A pedestrian passes a boarded-up storefront with a Black Lives Matter mural on Capitol Square Wednesday in Madison. Businesses in the downtown area had a difficult year coping with the COVID pandemic and vandalism associated with unrest during protests following the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck.MJS-madison00p2

Around the halls: What should the Biden administration prioritize in a policy agenda that promotes equity for Black Americans?

Thursday, February 11, 2021