Race

Black residents in the District are disproportionately arrested for minor violations, despite making up less than half of the population, according to a study by two watchdog groups.

A disproportionate number of black people in the District are arrested for minor violations that include smoking marijuana in public, driving without a license and gambling, a study from two watchdog groups found.

The District’s latest “health equity” maps shows a city divided by race and income. How well you live, or sometimes whether you live at all, can depend on what side of the line you are on.

Black D.C. residents represent 47% of the city’s population, but a new report from the ACLU of D.C. found that from 2013 to 2017, 86% of people arrested by the city’s police department were black.

Woodrow Wilson High School is among the District’s most racially integrated institutions. And it’s named after one of American history’s most powerful segregationists.

A prominent African American scholar and commentator says a racist epithet was hurled at his grandson Monday at a public elementary school in a mostly white and wealthy neighborhood in Northwest Washington.

In the early ’80s, my mother, younger sister and I went to live with my uncle Rev. Dr. James K. McCants where he presided in the church clergy house in Old Georgetown. What would become my address, 2902 O Street Northwest, was owned and…

“I’m not shocked.” The room quieted as Drey Awosika, a 21-year-old senior at George Washington University, spoke. “Racism exists,” she said. “It’s always been there.”

When Ely Parker married Minnie Sackett, “the creme de la creme of Washington society” came to gawk

When Bernard Demczuk does diversity and cultural awareness training with police, he gives a history lesson. Call it: Why black people distrust police.

“Racial equity” sounds so much more polite and positive than the ugly ill it’s trying to address—a history of deep structural and institutional racism.

Black journalists are underrepresented in D.C. newsrooms. That’s a problem for everyone.

The graduation numbers for the last school year in D.C. are finally in, and they don’t look great — for black and Latino students in D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) in particular.

The D.C. Council is at a tipping point. In a time of elevated racial and economic tensions, councilmembers are searching for a constructive way forward. They’re looking to prepare for future conflicts. But they’re stumbling along the way.

The District of Columbia is becoming increasingly more segregated by race and income in many areas. As outlined in the Urban Institute report The Color of Wealth in the Nation’s Capital, this segregation is built on racist public and…

There is a pattern of racial disparity in educational opportunity, attainment and school discipline practices in the Washington region, according to 2015-16 school year data recently released by the U.S. Department of Education and…

The biggest racial preferences in this country have nothing to do with college admissions or job offers. They have to do with political power. And they benefit white Americans, at the expense of black, Asian and Hispanic Americans.

Most conventional debates over gentrification in DC position the process as one that replaces long-time black residents with newer, wealthier white residents. Given the context, this framing makes sense: DC has a well-established black…