Was That Racist?

July 19, 2017 Sign up here for a free subscription to the Race/Related newsletter, which explores race with provocative reporting and discussion. The newsletter originally published these personal stories last week. The writers discussed their stories on The...

The Faces of Intermarriage, 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia

The Faces of Intermarriage, 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG July 6, 2017 Richard and Mildred Loving at home with their children Peggy, Donald and Sidney in 1967. By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG July 6, 2017 More than two...

Hangman’s Noose, Symbol of Racial Animus, Keeps Cropping Up

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and CAITLIN DICKERSON July 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — It was the beginning of the night shift last Wednesday at the United States Mint in Philadelphia, a secure facility that manufactures money, when a white male coin...

Program to Spur Low-Income Housing Is Keeping Cities Segregated

By JOHN ELIGON, YAMICHE ALCINDOR and AGUSTIN ARMENDARIZ July 2, 2017 HOUSTON — A mural on the wall of an elementary school here proclaimed, “All the world is all of us,” but the hundreds of people packing the auditorium one...

Dallas Schools, Long Segregated, Charge Forward on Diversity

By DANA GOLDSTEIN June 19, 2017 DALLAS — Michael Hinojosa was about to enter the ninth grade in Dallas when a federal judge ordered the city’s public schools to integrate. It was 1971, and Mr. Hinojosa, the Mexican-American son of a preacher, was...