150 Executives Commit to Fostering Diversity and Inclusion

A new initiative will have executives at companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Procter & Gamble share how to promote open discussion among employees.

‘We Are Not Unusual Anymore’: 50 Years of Mixed-Race Marriage in U.S.

By JENNIFER MEDINA June 11, 2017 OAKLAND, Calif. — For their first date, in 1949, Leon Watson and Rosina Rodriquez headed to the movie theater. But each entered separately. First went Ms. Rodriquez, a fair-skinned woman who traces her roots to Mexico....

For Officers in Fatal Shootings, an Unseen ‘Grieving Process’

By MITCH SMITH and SERGE F. KOVALESKI June 6, 2017 CHICAGO — There is a grim routine to the police shootings that have divided this country in recent years. First, we learn the names and ages of the deceased. We see them smiling in old...

Portland Killings Dredge Up Legacy of Racist Laws in Oregon

By KIRK JOHNSON June 4, 2017 PORTLAND, Ore. — The fatal stabbing of two good Samaritans who intervened when a man on a commuter train shouted slurs at two women — both African-American, one in Muslim dress — has reawakened bitter memories...

Colleges Celebrate Diversity With Separate ‘Commencements’

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS June 2, 2017 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Looking out over a sea of people in Harvard Yard last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive and one of Harvard’s most famous dropouts, told this year’s graduating...

Dostoyevsky, NPR and Mass Murder: Files Shed Light on Dylann Roof

By KEVIN SACK May 31, 2017 CHARLESTON, S.C. — In early January, after a series of closed-court hearings, a federal judge in Charleston allowed Dylann S. Roof to represent himself as prosecutors sought his execution for a murderous 2015 rampage at a...