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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

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What’s the future of Black horror?

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

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Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too 

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The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

How crypto failed Black investors

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

Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre

The controversy over AP African American studies, explained

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

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

Hollywood’s Black film problem, explained by Elvis Mitchell

The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard

Unpacking Armageddon Time

Affirmative action is facing its most difficult test

What the Constitution actually says about race, explained

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

The hope — and risk — of local reparations 

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

Reparations could heal America

The post-legal Supreme Court

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

The Juneteenth flag, explained

Democracy in America is a rigged game

There’s no freedom without reparations

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

Juneteenth merch is American consumerism at its most crass

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.

The case against SCOTUS

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

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

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

What an anti-lynching law means in 2022

Clarence Thomas’s long fight against fair and democratic elections

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.

The simplest, most revolutionary approach to ending poverty

Ahmaud Arbery’s killers convicted on federal hate crimes charges

The philosopher King

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

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

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

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

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

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

The significance of the guilty verdicts in Arbery’s murder