On Our Radar

Some Black employees at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, his $80 billion philanthropic company, say his efforts are stymied by blind spots around race and the desire to appear bipartisan.

Richard Rothstein, author of ‘The Color of Law,’ says it was government policy to keep African Americans out of white, working-class neighborhoods.

The agency is ending the 2020 census early. Tribal communities will be skipped over, leaving them poorer and politically weakened.

A century later, it’s past time to recognize the women of color who were sidelined in the fight for gender and racial equality.

A historic low-income-voter turnout in 2020 would mean a victory for Democrats.

The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people?

A new generation of activists is trying to figure out where to concentrate its efforts. Residential desegregation is the final frontier.

Banco Nacion is the first bank in the world to adopt a quota for transgender people, the country’s banking union says.

Refusing to account for her “top cop” record risks squandering the energy and enthusiasm of the BLM criminal justice reform movement.

Scholars and policymakers have proposed ways to fix the inequities between whites and people of color, including changes to Social Security and building wealth from birth.

This year, Black Women’s Equal Pay Day falls on Aug. 13, the symbolic date for how far Black women have to work into the new year to earn the same pay White men earned the previous year.

Racial inequality wasn’t an accident. It was an ugly political choice.

Have you noticed that social-impact organizations working with black people often describe them in language that is so offensive that we wouldn’t dare use it to their faces?

Voting is already hard. Housing insecurity and the coronavirus pandemic are only going to make it worse.

Today is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, and represents how much farther into the current calendar year the average Black woman must work to make the same amount that her white male counterpart made the previous year.