Race: Conversations around race and racial justice

Here are the latest on the fight against racism, voices calling for racial justice and in-depth stories on communities of color and other racial issues from MPR News.

Voices of Minnesota Calls for change across the state

Protests and pain The killing of George Floyd

Call To Mind Spotlight on black trauma and policing

Amplifying voices Share your experiences and hopes for the future

Confederate names on schools are flash points. Here's one community's story
In the upheaval following the murder of George Floyd, passionate debates ignited across America about what to do with the remnants of the Civil War. It divided one in Jacksonville, Fla.
After a grueling year in the ICU and at George Floyd Square, an unexpected friendship
More than a year after two epidemics — of COVID-19 and racial injustice — collided in Jeanette Rupert’s world, the nurse and social justice activist says she’s learned no one person can go it alone. It’s a lesson that was underscored for her by a letter from a stranger. 
Historian uncovers the racist roots of the 2nd Amendment
Carol Anderson says the Second Amendment was designed to ensure slave owners could quickly crush any rebellion or resistance from those they'd enslaved. Her new book is “The Second.”
A video shows a man suddenly hitting an Asian Woman in NYC's Chinatown
A video shows a man raising his arm to hit a woman passing by on the sidewalk. Police said the man was charged with assault as a hate crime, assault and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
100 years after Tulsa Race Massacre, the damage remains
The Tulsa Race Massacre is just one of the starkest examples of how Black wealth has been sapped, again and again, by racism and racist violence — forcing generation after generation to start from scratch while shouldering the burdens of being Black in America. All in the shadow of a Black paradise lost.