racism

One Black geocacher writes about harrowing encounters, such as being called "boy" and finding a cache hidden inside a flagpole flying the Confederate flag.

Two low home appraisals spurred a Black woman in Indianapolis to administer her own fair housing test. The result led her to file a complaint alleging housing discrimination.

Biden talked about "the knee of injustice on the neck of Black Americans," while Scott declared, "America is not a racist country." But there was some overlap on policing issues.

A group of students at the Daniel Ninth Grade Campus in the Fort Worth suburb of Aledo set up the so-called “slave trade” of Black classmates on Snapchat, civil rights activists told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

"The pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism," Walensky said.

Part of President Biden's infrastructure plan aims to promote racial equity. Professor Deborah Archer says highway planners in the mid-20th century sometimes purposefully destroyed Black communities.

SMU professor Priscilla Lui talked about allyship and the effects that fetishization and discrimination have had on Asian American communities, particularly women.

The Atlanta shooting has led to heated discussion about the blame — and violence — aimed at Asians during the pandemic. It's the latest example in a long history of hatred fueled by disease.

SMU professor Priscilla Lui studies racial discrimination and intercultural contact. She talks about recent incidents of hate against Asian Americans.

“We’ve done this time and time again, and it’s had deadly consequences.”

“We believe in justice,” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy said. “There’s an old saying in Texas about, you know, ‘find all the rope in Texas and get a tall oak tree.’ You know we take justice very seriously and we ought to do that, round up the bad guys."

As Asian American communities reel from an uptick in violence and hate spurred by racist rhetoric about the coronavirus pandemic, advocates are urging Americans to be allies in actionable ways that go beyond words.