Baltimore’s state’s attorney gambled that prosecuting six officers for the death of Freddie Gray would help heal her city. She lost much more than just the case.

She entered the national spotlight after she live streamed the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. This is Diamond Reynolds’s life today.

Only 16 counties regularly impose death sentences, and they have three things in common: overaggressive prosecutors, defense lawyers who aren’t up to the task and cultural legacies of racial bias. Florida’s Fourth Judicial Circuit is among them.

A profile of the Carolina Panthers quarterback.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

“I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous.”

On affirmative action at the University of Texas, the essence of privilege, and getting what you deserve.

This job—writing college essays for Abigail Fishers—was the only job I have ever been truly ashamed of, and I am so ashamed of it now that it hurts.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

The real-time intersection of race, crime, reality, and entertainment.

The revival of a landmark 1921 musical opens a door on the deep and twisted roots of black performance in America.

Searching for meaning at Baldwin’s soon-to-be-demolished home in France.

Was Edwin Raymond punished for not meeting quotas?

What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”

To understand Cam Newton, you need to go to a small church 45 minutes outside of Atlanta called Holy Zion Center of Deliverance and hear his dad preach.

“If any of you are around when I have to meet my day, I don’t want a long funeral. And if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, tell them not to talk too long.”

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

The racist foundation of Oregon.

After 25 years as a road comic, Leslie Jones becomes a star.

On Dec. 18, 2007, the school board in Pinellas Country, Florida, voted to abandon integration. They justified the decision with bold promises: Schools in poor, black neighborhoods would get more money, more staff, more resources. They delivered none of that. A 5-part investigation.

Reckoning with what is owed—and what can never be repaid—for racial privilege.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

Race and Ole Miss football.

Who we think we are in 2015.

Talking to Lee Daniels about Empire, Hollywood, and survival.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”