Janell Ross

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad advocates for urgent intervention to address deep-rooted racial wealth disparities in the U.S.

The Fearless Fund, run by Arian Simone and Ayana Parsons, was sued by an organization led by Edward Blum and is now at the center of a major civil rights fight.

Sociologist Patricia Hills Collins won the $1 million Berggruen Philosophy Prize for her decades of work.

Raoul Peck talks about Silver Dollar Road, heirs’ property loss, the value of land, and telling nuanced stories.

We find ourselves, as a nation, in a nauseating position

‘Something as radical as a monument to love in a society that celebrates hate and is going to and must necessarily challenge’

It’s not that suddenly everyone wants to work on projects about the 1955 lynching that galvanized the civil rights movement

As a groundbreaking Black journalist, Charlayne Hunter-Gault has both made and chronicled history. And history, she says, repeats itself.

Few officers are charged with crimes in connection with their on-duty service

Some officials find themselves exactly where they long suspected Grand Rapids was headed: in the spotlight after a fatal police shooting

The loss of American life is now measured in the hundreds of thousands. What was held in those minds is less easily tallied

With a judge having granted her request to seat a special grand jury in the 2020 election investigation, DA Fani Willis talks to TIME

‘History has seized us here’

When the Met reopens after its pandemic closure, it will do so with the first opera in its history by a Black composer

The gesture can only be given lasting substance by what happens next

“COVID-19 is still very much among us,” Rep. Celia Israel said in a statement

The sentence does little to address a system that isn’t set up for accountability

The common story of June 19 focuses on one white man. If you ask Black people, Juneteenth marks the day Black Americans created their own freedom.

Minneapolis officials have said they’ll reopen the intersection when the trial ends. Activists hope its legacy will endure.

To Black people inside and outside that Minneapolis ballroom, a conviction in the death of one Black man is unlikely to make anyone feel that police accountability and equal justice can now be counted upon.