Racism

U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NASA mathematician and physicist Katherine Johnson at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 24, 2015.

Hidden Figures Hero Katherine Johnson Reminded Us That Space Was Never Safe From America’s Worst Impulses

Nor was NASA excluded from the nation's evolution

White News Anchor Apologizes After Saying Black Co-Host Looks Like Gorilla

'It was inconsiderate, it was inappropriate and I have hurt people.'

Engraving shows the arrival of a ship with a group of Africans for sale in Virginia in 1619

The First Africans in Virginia Landed in 1619. It Was a Turning Point for Slavery in American History—But Not the Beginning

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer...

It was in 1619, "about the latter end of August," that an English privateer ship reached Point Comfort on the Virginia peninsula—and changed history

Julissa Arce's passports before she became a US citizen.

Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Was Never About Legality — It Was About Our Brown Skin

I was 11 when I immigrated to San Antonio from Mexico. When I turned 14, my...

I was 11 when I immigrated to San Antonio from Mexico. When I turned 14, my tourist visa expired and I became undocumented. After more than a decade without papers, I became a United States...

The Chicago Race Riot began at the 29th Street Beach, after the drowning death of Eugene Williams, an African-American teenager who had crossed an imaginary boundary in the water separating blacks from whites, July 27, 1919.

Ensuring the Chicago Race Riot Is Not Forgotten, With Inspiration from Germany's Holocaust Memorials

A teenager's death sparked a riot that reshaped the city's history

An Airbus A320 bearing the livery of Alitalia airline takes off from Rome's Fiumicino airport on May 31, 2019.

Italian Airline Apologizes For Promotional Video With Actor Playing Barack Obama in Blackface

An Italian airline has "deeply apologized" after one of its promotional vid...

An Italian airline has "deeply apologized" after one of its promotional videos featured an actor wearing blackface in an apparent attempt to portray former U.S. president Barack Obama. Alitalia, Italy's flag carrier airline, quickly faced...

A gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA.

'No Food, No Drink, No Watermelon' Boston Schoolteacher Claims Her Students Were Racially Profiled at Museum

A staff member allegedly told the students 'no food, no drink, and no water...

A staff member allegedly told the students 'no food, no drink, and no watermelon.'"