Tag: Race

Officer William Porter's retrial will begin June 13, 2016 and will follow the other trials of the five officers charged in Gray's death. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

New trial date for officer charged in Freddie Gray’s death

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2015 7:34 pm

President Obama announced no significant shift in U.S. strategy and offered no new policy prescriptions for defeating the Islamic State. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP

Obama defends Black Lives Matter movement

Kelly Cohen · December 21, 2015 5:41 pm

Vanita Gupta, principal deputy assistant attorney general who leads Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division, will address the group gathered in the White House auditorium. (AP file photo/Tony Dejak)

White House moves to tamp down anti-Muslim backlash

Nicole Duran · December 17, 2015 8:23 pm

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, only 34 percent of Americans view race relations in the country as fairly good or very good. (AP Photo)

U.S. race relations at 20-year low

Kelly Cohen · December 17, 2015 5:58 pm

Baltimore calls for calm after Freddie Gray mistrial

Baltimore calls for calm after Freddie Gray mistrial

Anna Giaritelli · December 17, 2015 2:17 am

"Well, that's really tragic that you hear these comments which are full of hatred, full of this ideology of being discriminative towards others," Yousafzai said. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP file)

Peace Prize winner says Trump’s Muslim ban ‘full of hatred’

Kelly Cohen · December 16, 2015 1:55 pm

Organizers with the Chicago Light Brigade told sources the 16 people who took part in the protest represented the number of times Laquan McDonald was shot last October by police officer Michael Van Dyke. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Rahm-must-go protest gathers steam in Chicago, New York

Anna Giaritelli · December 16, 2015 4:26 am

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump "didn't like" Justice Antonin Scalia's words, which he described as "very, very tough to a certain community." (AP Photo/Eric Schultz)

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Trump says ‘Whoa.’ Let’s take him at his word

Hugo Gurdon · December 14, 2015 7:59 pm

"Hands Up, Don't Shoot" quickly gained traction, and the story soon became part of a widely accepted narrative involving Michael Brown's death. (AP Photo)

‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ makes WaPo’s list of outlandish claims

Becket Adams · December 14, 2015 5:55 pm

According to police in Hawthorne, Calif., both incidents are being classified as hate crimes, and the FBI is investigating whether federal civil rights were violated. (AP Photo)

Two California mosques vandalized with ‘Jesus’

Kelly Cohen · December 14, 2015 5:28 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he "didn't like" statements Justice Antonin Scalia made last week during oral arguments on an affirmative action case. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump dings Scalia for affirmative action comments

Curt Mills · December 13, 2015 5:10 pm

Democratic Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana said Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S. sets a dangerous precedent for the United States. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)

Muslim lawmaker fires back at Trump’s ‘dangerous’ rhetoric

Daniel Chaitin · December 13, 2015 4:49 pm