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Race

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

Culture

On Hulu’s The Other Black Girl, the hair is the point

By Constance Grady

Police Violence

Police fatally shot a pregnant Black woman in Ohio. The calls for accountability are growing.

By Li Zhou

Vivek Ramaswamy and the lie of the “model minority”

By Prachi Gupta

Politics

White supremacy is at the heart of the Jacksonville shooting

By Li Zhou

Culture

Was The Blind Side’s white savior narrative built on a lie?

By Fabiola Cineas

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

By Fabiola Cineas August 9

How a Mississippi case of police brutality emphasizes the need for more accountability

By Li Zhou August 4

How Alabama could get away with defying the Supreme Court

By Ian Millhiser July 26

Affirmative action for white college applicants is still here

By Fabiola Cineas July 25

Supreme Court

The importance of staying angry at the Supreme Court

The way to beat a partisan Supreme Court is to hold a grudge against it for a really long time.

By Ian Millhiser July 8

France’s protests over a police killing, briefly explained

By Nicole Narea July 5

The SCOTUS decision on affirmative action in colleges, explained

By Fabiola Cineas and Ian Millhiser June 29

The 50-year culture war over affirmative action may be coming to an end

By Fabiola Cineas June 29

The monstrous arrogance of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action decision

By Ian Millhiser June 29

America’s Trumpiest court comes for the First Amendment right to protest

By Ian Millhiser June 21

How to deal with racial trauma, according to Black experts

By Kenya Hunter, Capital B June 16

Discrimination everywhere

By Vox and Capital B June 16

Juneteenth, explained

By Fabiola Cineas June 15

The systemic issues revealed by Jordan Neely’s killing, explained

By Nicole Narea and Li Zhou June 15

What’s behind Black women’s excessive rate of fibroids?

By Akilah Wise, Capital B June 15

We need to rethink discipline in schools

By Jonquilyn Hill June 14

How cars fuel racial inequality

By Marin Cogan June 13

Discrimination isn’t just infuriating. It steals Black people’s time.

By Sean Collins and Izzie Ramirez June 12

A racist society is detrimental to your health

By Margo Snipe, Capital B June 12

Tim Scott’s unwavering optimism about racism in America

By Nicole Narea June 6

Florida is too dangerous to visit, civil rights groups warn

By Nicole Narea May 22

The blatant discrimination of Ron DeSantis’s anti-China housing law

By Li Zhou May 16

A new Supreme Court case threatens to make gerrymandering even worse

By Ian Millhiser May 15

The horror of Ralph Yarl’s shooting

By Li Zhou April 19

Why we should run elite college admissions like a lottery

By Bryan Walsh April 19

The Broadway musical getting protested by neo-Nazis

By Constance Grady March 23

Everything you need to know about the 95th Academy Awards

What’s the future of Black horror?

By Alissa Wilkinson February 28

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

By Marin Cogan February 28

Ordinary Black lives should be remembered, too

By Gabrielle Ione Hickmon February 22

The fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, explained

By Nicole Narea, Sean Collins, and 1 more February 17

How crypto failed Black investors

By Emily Stewart February 16

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

By Jack Meserve February 16

Buffalo, seven weeks after the massacre

By Fabiola Cineas February 15

The controversy over AP African American studies, explained

By Fabiola Cineas February 9

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

By Nicole Narea November 29, 2022

Hollywood’s Black film problem, explained by Elvis Mitchell

By Alissa Wilkinson November 11, 2022

The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard

By Ian Millhiser October 31, 2022

Unpacking Armageddon Time

By Alissa Wilkinson October 31, 2022

What the Constitution actually says about race, explained

By Ian Millhiser October 23, 2022

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

By Ian Millhiser September 26, 2022

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