Race & Culture

Osvaldo Chacon has been singing since he was 5, and 15 years later, he's going to compete in a program he's been hoping to get to all those years.

Numerous residents in the predominantly Latino Burbank Gardens neighborhood said they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen.

Native American People of the Plains and Beyond is a recently-formed group that wants to memorialize the area's deep history.

A former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) official told congressional investigators that the decision to begin expelling migrants at the border under U.S. Health Code Title 42 during Trump’s tenure “wasn’t based on a public health assessment.”

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Kate Clifford Larson, award-winning historian and consultant and author of Walk With Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer.

An expert in culture-based education strategies says not glossing over atrocities is one step towards repairing relationships with Indigenous communities.

Amid ongoing discussions about racial justice, the Roosevelt Institute is reflecting on the repercussions of FDR’s policy that sent Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps.

While educators are still waiting to see how laws will be enforced, the vagueness of some of the measures and stiff penalties already are chilling conversations on race in schools.

Dallas advocates say the marker will make sure the city remembers its troubled past.

Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed with an AR-15-style rifle when he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third in August 2020. A jury found he acted in self-defense on a night of unrest.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan on Friday will meet with community leaders and advocates in Houston neighborhoods where pollution has impacted people’s health.

A Texas State University student faces a federal charge of arson in connection with the fire at Congregation Beth Israel last month. If convicted, he could go to prison for 20 years.