Race & Culture

The city is hosting a series of public meetings next week to gather input from city residents about recommendations to make the city’s housing policies fairer and address decades of unequal development.

More than a third of police use of force incidents in Irving involved Black people between 2017 and 2019 – but only 1 in 7 Irving residents are Black.

Piñatas are a common element in parties across different countries, but especially in Mexico around Christmas time, and the story of their origin combines cultures, traditions and religions.

Turkey is the second largest exporter of television content after the U.S. Spanish-language networks in the U.S., like Telemundo and Univision, are capitalizing on this trend by airing Turkish series dubbed in Spanish during their primetime hours.

The nonprofit FreeWorld is the winner of the annual Pegasus Prize, a $50,000 social innovation grant.

The fight over race and how to deal with pandemic has split the Fort Worth community, showcasing what’s being seen across the state and country.

An audit concluded that Dallas' Comprehensive Housing Policy hopes to “overcome patterns of segregation and concentrations of poverty” but lays out no “vision or strategies” to increase equity by reducing racial disparities.

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.