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The Department of Justice excoriated the Minneapolis Police Department in an 89-page report released Friday, accusing the department of systemic racial and behavioral discrimination—years before the death of George Floyd in 2020. The two-year investigation was prompted by the April 2021 conviction of Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer who murdered Floyd the previous May by pinning his

Since the nation’s founding, the fabric of American society has been woven with deeply racist policies that directly harm Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. These policies have led to an unequal system where marginalized communities have been systematically locked out of opportunities in jobs, education, and housing.

Systemic Equality is a racial justice agenda that seeks to

For the mother of Tyre Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also Black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with his violent death at age 29.

“It makes it even harder to swallow,” RowVaughn Wells said in an interview last week, “because they are Black and they know what we have to go through.”

The race of the five officers

Boston University announced an inquiry Thursday (Sept. 21) into its Center for Antiracist Research over the “management culture” and grant management leadership of Ibram X. Kendi, following sudden layoffs and complaints. The center laid off nearly all of its staff last week amid multiple allegations that at least $43 million in grants and gifts were mismanaged, and the funding failed to