racial injustice

Jury selection has begun in Georgia, where hundreds of people were ordered to report for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors for the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery

Many of the law enforcement changes enacted by states after George Floyd’s death have centered on policing tactics, not on racial disparities in the criminal justice system.

After the Valley View High School cheerleaders were targeted in a hurtful and racial attack last week, hundreds came out to show they have their backs. Hetty Chang reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on August 26, 2021.

Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation’s capital that were used as erosion control along the Virginia shoreline of the Potomac River are being relocated to a memorial garden in Maryland.

Police officers in west Michigan handcuffed the group after a neighbor wrongly reported that the three Black people were breaking into a home.

A music producer claims he was racially profiled by police and there’s body cam footage. Eric Leonard reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on June 3, 2021.

Three Washington state police officers have pleaded not guilty to charges in the restraint death of a Black man who repeatedly told them he couldn’t breathe.

Black Tulsa never really recovered from the devastation that took place 100 years ago, when nearly every structure in Greenwood, the fabled Black Wall Street, was flattened and as many as 300 people were killed

A family-friendly street festival was also planned at the Minneapolis intersection where Floyd died. The intersection was disrupted by gunfire just hours before the event.

Fresh off the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Floyd’s relatives and other activists want justice for a local man killed by Pasadena Police. Beverly White reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on May 17, 2021.

Leaders in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April could vote Saturday on a resolution that would put the city on track to making major changes to its policing practices

LeBron James is explaining why he deleted a tweet that referenced 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant, who was shot and killed by a police officer on Tuesday, April 20

Nearly 100 years in the making. In the 20s, land known as a safe space for Black people was taken from a Black couple. Jonathan Gonzalez reports April 9, 2021.

Initial steps are about to be taken to return a scenic parcel of Manhattan Beach land to the descendants of a Black couple who were subjected to years of harassment for operating a beach resort that was ultimately condemned and seized by city, according to Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn.

Nearly a century after the city of Manhattan Beach used a legal tool to take land away from Black property owners, an area known as Bruce’s Beach, Los Angeles County tells NBCLA it is looking at returning it to the descendants of the Bruce family. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Feb. 28, 2021. Credits: Manhattan...

Purnell Steen, an accomplished jazz musician and civil rights activist, talks about the struggles Black musicians faced at the dawn of the civil rights era.

When massive demonstrations against racial injustice erupted across the nation last summer, protesters often swarmed onto roads or highways to draw attention to their cause

Elizabeth Williams, a former Philadelphia nurse and hospital superintendent, talks about fighting for acceptance as a Black medical professional in the medical system and how discrimination followed her career from hospital to hospital.

President Joe Biden mentioned “the sting of systemic racism” in his inauguration speech. Here’s what the term means.

Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a challenge that hits closer to home: rooting out racism and extremism in the ranks