Chicago's Red Summer

Latinos make up at least 50% of all Customs and Border Patrol agents and 20% of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — which has a lot of critics asking, why? We talk to Geraldo Cadava, professor of Latino Studies at Northwestern and contributor to the Atlantic, to break do ...  Show more

Happy tenth birthday to us! In true Gemini fashion - we're that sign - we're celebrating by exploring our duality through astrology. Our intrepid Aquarius, B.A. Parker, talks to an astrologer and a science writer - a true believer and a real skeptic - about why Black and Latina w ...  Show more

In the 1960s, America burned. Black communities’ frustration against racist policies, economic isolation, and police brutality spilled into the stree ...

A tornado outbreak carves a treacherous path across the southern U.S., a former Starbucks manager is awarded $25.6 million in damages by a jury after she said the company fired her for being white in the wake of a racially-charged 2018 incident, the parents of a high school stude ...  Show more

Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American communit ...  Show more

The shooting hits at the heart of Boston’s most bitter divisions and reopens a wound around race relations that was just beginning to heal. In 1974, the city was thrown into turmoil when a judge ordered the desegregation of Boston schools. Some parents revolted and attacked schoo ...  Show more