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Racial Justice

Examining Race and Racism in America

384 stories published since 2008

Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk

by Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner, Surya Mattu,

A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage

by Ken Schwencke,

Justice Department Changes Position on Texas’ Discriminatory Voter ID Law

by Jessica Huseman,

When the Government Really Did Fear a Bowling Green Massacre — From a White Supremacist

by A.C. Thompson,

Teens Report Onslaught of Bullying During Divisive Election

by A.C. Thompson,

An Ocean Apart, But United in Concerns About Hate Crimes

by Patrick G. Lee,

Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue of Hate Crimes Against Whites

by Joe Sexton,

Rare Track Record: NYPD’s History Chronicling Hate Crimes

by Jessica Huseman,

‘What’s Going On, Daddy’: A Reporter on the Hate Beat Finds 2 Very Local Stories

by A.C. Thompson,

‘As a White Nationalist, What Do You Do?’

by A.C. Thompson,

In An Ugly Election Result, Hate Surges Online

by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke,

Hate Crimes Are Up — But the Government Isn’t Keeping Good Track of Them

by A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke,

Facebook Says it Will Stop Allowing Some Advertisers to Exclude Users by Race

by Julia Angwin,

In Iowa, Latino College Students Shaken Up by Racist Incident

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HUD Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About Facebook’s Ethnic Targeting

by Stephen Engelberg,

Lawmakers to Facebook: Don’t Let Advertisers Exclude by Race

by Eric Umansky,

Latino Voters Face Long Lines in Texas, Florida

Claudia Báez for ProPublica and Rachel Glickhouse, Univision News,

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

by Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.,

Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to Be Racist

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.,

‘Only White People,’ Said the Little Girl

by Topher Sanders,

Discrimination by Design

by Lena V. Groeger,

Busted

Ryan Gabrielson and Topher Sanders,

Why Liberal New York City’s Schools Are Among the Nation’s Most Segregated

by Heather Vogell,

How We Decided to Test Racial Bias in Algorithms

by Adam Harris,

What Algorithmic Injustice Looks Like in Real Life

by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

Machine Bias

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

How Residents Get Ensnared by NYPD Nuisance Abatement Cases

by Joaquin Sapien,

NYPD Chief: Police ‘Will Continue to Aggressively Enforce Nuisance Abatement’

by Sarah Ryley and Rocco Parascandola for ProPublica,

The Best MuckReads on America’s Troubled History With Race

by Adam Harris,

NYPD to Change How Police Use Nuisance Abatement Law

by Ginger Adams Otis and Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Officials Outraged After ‘Shocking’ Report on NYPD Kicking People Out of Homes

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

The NYPD Is Kicking People Out of Their Homes, Even if They Haven’t Committed a Crime

by Sarah Ryley, special to ProPublica,

How We Did Our Analysis of New York City Nuisance Abatement Cases

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Racist Temp Hiring, a Guest Worker Empire and More in Muckreads Weekly

by Adam Harris,

Why Small Debts Matter So Much To Black Lives

by Paul Kiel,

Why Counting Mass Shootings is a Bad Way to Understand Gun Violence in America

by Lois Beckett,

To Address Race Gap, Missouri AG Pushes Debt Collection Fixes

by Paul Kiel,

How the Gun Control Debate Ignores Black Lives

Lois Beckett,

The Color of Debt: How Collection Suits Squeeze Black Neighborhoods

Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman,

The Color of Debt

by Al Shaw, Annie Waldman and Paul Kiel,

How We Analyzed Racial Disparity in Debt Collection Lawsuits

Paul Kiel and Annie Waldman,

Did the Famous Desegregation of Yonkers Actually Work?

by Cynthia Gordy Giwa,

The Tiger Mom Tax: Asians Are Nearly Twice as Likely to Get a Higher Price from Princeton Review

by Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Jeff Larson,

Georgia is Segregating Troublesome Kids in Schools Used During Jim Crow

by Marian Wang,

May It Displease the Court: Race and Justice Sotomayor

by ProPublica,

6 Tips for Protecting Your Communications From Prying Eyes

by Julia Angwin,

Racist Posts on NY Cop Blog Raise Ire at Time of Tension

by Joaquin Sapien,

Yes, Black America Fears the Police. Here’s Why.

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,

Housing Enforcement Group Sues M&T Bank for Discrimination

by Nikole Hannah-Jones,