racial inequality

The National Urban League has released its annual report on the State of Black America, and its findings are grim.

Rochelle Ballantyne navigates Marshall Chess Club in New York City like it’s her own home. With a hasty New Yorker stride, she weaves through the narrow, wooden hallways of the club to the back room, where newer chess players hesitate to go. She plops down her belongings on an unused chess desk, headphones on, and shovels a few bites...

There’s a culture of playing chess within the Black community, but for a long time, Black players, especially Black women, haven’t felt welcome in mainstream, competitive spaces. NBCLX storyteller Mackenzie Behm explores the lives of several young chess players, the opportunities the game has provided them — and why chess history is about to be made.

‘No one is denying that the main purpose of education is to get experience. It is. But people need a paycheck to pay for bills while they’re getting that experience.’

Purnell Steen, a classical jazz pianist who struggled against bias against Black musicians as a student, recalls the moment that made him decide to return to music.

Purnell Steen talks about the bias Black students faced in the 1960s trying to pursue classical music and how they continue to be discriminated against in all other aspects of their education at the dawn of the civil rights era.

Elizabeth Williams recalls fighting through bias as a Black nurse in Philadelphia throughout the early 60s.

Elizabeth Williams, a Black nurse who had worked her way up to hospital superintendent despite overwhelming racial bias, talks about working through that bias as a young Black student going into nursing in 1930s Philadelphia.

President Joe Biden mentioned “the sting of systemic racism” in his inauguration speech. Here’s what the term means.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s son says one of the biggest lesson he learned from his parents was the importance of loving yourself. Martin Luther King III joined LX News to talk about his father’s legacy as a civil rights trailblazer and as a dad.

Two-time Grammy winner Lecrae is now a second-time New York Times best-selling author. The rapper joins LX News to talk about his new book “I Am Restored: How I Lost My Religion but Found My Faith,” in which he opens up about overcoming trauma and growing stronger in his faith.

Kenosha, Wisconsin, became the nation’s latest flashpoint in a summer of racial unrest after cell-phone footage of police shooting Jacob Blake in broad daylight circulated on social media, reports NBC 7’s Melissa Adan.

San Diegans are expressing their frustrations after watching cell-phone video of Jacob Blake’s shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As many as 215,000 more people than usual died in the U.S. during the first seven months of 2020, suggesting that the number of lives lost to the coronavirus is significantly higher than the official toll

Dr. Harry Williams of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund details findings in a new report about fragile communities across the U.S. that spotlight concerns on healthcare, police misconduct and needed education reforms in major urban cities.