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Vox's home for coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement and the fight for racial justice in America.

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The Broadway musical getting protested by neo-Nazis

By Constance Grady

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What’s the future of Black horror?

By Alissa Wilkinson

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Cars transformed America. They also made people more vulnerable to the police.

By Marin Cogan

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Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too 

By Gabrielle Ione Hickmon

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The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

By Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and 1 more

How crypto failed Black investors

By Emily Stewart

This Penn professor has been offending minorities for years. Will tenure save her?

By Jack Meserve

Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre

By Fabiola Cineas

The controversy over AP African American studies, explained

By Fabiola Cineas

Megan Thee Stallion, Me Too, and hip-hop’s cycle of misogynoir

By Fabiola Cineas

Donald Trump’s dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes was much more than a gaffe

By Nicole Narea

Hollywood’s Black film problem, explained by Elvis Mitchell

By Alissa Wilkinson

The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard

By Ian Millhiser

Unpacking Armageddon Time

By Alissa Wilkinson

Affirmative action is facing its most difficult test

By Fabiola Cineas and Ian Millhiser

What the Constitution actually says about race, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court’s new term could be even more consequential than its last one

By Ian Millhiser

The hope — and risk — of local reparations 

By Fabiola Cineas

The Marxist scholar who thinks reparations are “a waste of time”

By Fabiola Cineas

Reparations could heal America

By Vox Staff

The post-legal Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser

The land of the free leads the world in incarceration. Why?

By Christina Carrega

The Juneteenth flag, explained

By Kenya Hunter

Democracy in America is a rigged game

By Ian Millhiser

There’s no freedom without reparations

By Fabiola Cineas

3 Black women couldn’t find a place their families felt safe. So they bought a town.

By Jewel Wicker

Juneteenth merch is American consumerism at its most crass

By Julia Craven

Juneteenth isn’t just a celebration of freedom. It’s a monument to America’s failures.

The holiday observes the emancipation of enslaved people. Let it also be a time to consider the hypocrisies of the American experiment.

By Sean Collins

The case against SCOTUS

By Ian Millhiser

What happens when The Real World turns you into an “Angry Black Woman”

By Alex Abad-Santos

A new Supreme Court case makes George W. Bush look like a racial justice crusader

By Ian Millhiser

How Black North Carolinians pay the price for the world’s cheap bacon

By Jamie Berger

What an anti-lynching law means in 2022

By Fabiola Cineas

Clarence Thomas’s long fight against fair and democratic elections

By Ian Millhiser

The impossible task of truth and reconciliation

Commissions are a common tool to expose atrocities after war and genocide. Reconciliation is harder to come by.

By Jen Kirby

The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty

By Siobhan McDonough

Ahmaud Arbery’s killers convicted on federal hate crimes charges

By Jamil Smith

The philosopher King

By Zack Beauchamp

Can Whoopi Goldberg’s public history lesson actually do some good?

By Aja Romano

A new Supreme Court case could make it nearly impossible to stop racial gerrymanders

By Ian Millhiser

Retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s nearly 28 years on the Supreme Court, explained

By Ian Millhiser

The Supreme Court will hear two cases that are likely to end affirmative action

By Ian Millhiser

A physicist’s lessons about race, power, and the universe

By Neel Dhanesha

Lawyers left racism out of the trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s death. Here’s why.

By Fabiola Cineas

The significance of the guilty verdicts in Arbery’s murder

By Fabiola Cineas