Racial Justice

The Austin Police Department released a long-awaited report Friday detailing the police response to racial justice protests, which injured dozens.

Historian, author and professor Peniel Joseph says the United States is living through the third Reconstruction period in its history. He says each of those periods is characterized by racial progress followed by white backlash.

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Solomon Jones, award-winning columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and morning host for WURD radio in Philadelphia.

Maredith Drake, a volunteer street medic, was shot in May 2020 while trying to help an injured demonstrator.

Joan Means Khabele swam in Barton Springs Pool as an act of civil disobedience, sparking weekly swim-ins during the summer of 1960 that ultimately led to the pool's integration.

Three plaintiffs say Austin police officers used excessive force when they fired at protesters during racial justice protests in 2020.

The American Library Association says libraries faced the highest number of book challenges since they started tracking in 2000. Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer topped their list of most challenged books.

President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.

Students are forming banned-book clubs and distribution drives to contest restrictions that focus mostly on LGBTQ and racial themes.

Ayala was one of two demonstrators who suffered brain trauma after being shot by so-called "less-lethal" beanbag rounds.