Race

Will Smith became the biggest movie star in the world by playing one cop after another. In the Black Lives Matter era, can that still resonate?

George Jean Nathan Award recognizes her work on how theater recognizes or ignores the subject of race

I’m sorry, Cal is WHO?!

NFL’s black signal-callers make a way out of no way

How the high school athlete endured his infamous haircut

Award-winning essayist and poet Natalie Diaz explores the laws of ownership through the ex-Clippers franchise holder and what we miss when we lose attention to language

Jason Wright, a McKinsey partner, co-authors new study detailing why black families are financially so far behind whites

Wanting black folks free means freeing even those we disagree with

The nation’s most important civil rights lawyer since Thurgood Marshall still believes in equal justice under law

Almost half of exonerated prisoners are African-American