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Two criminal defense attorneys weigh in on the reasons for and impact of over-policing black boys.

In the new TNT docu-series about race, the former NBA star is mostly indifferent to the broader context of the discussions he's wading into — and to the limits of trying to "start a dialogue."

In this edition: posers, pretenders and passers.

A new study finds that the neighborhood where children in public housing live impacts their life outcomes in more significant ways than race does.

Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby chat it up with Kenya Barris and Yara Shahidi — the creator and star of ABC's Black-ish.

Sometimes, the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice. Even if it takes time, as was the case in South Carolina involving a white police officer and an unarmed black man.

Netflix's hit show, with its incessant and incisive look at race at a fictional Ivy League college, doesn't really focus much on white people at all.

Prince on defining his music: "The only thing I could think of, because I really don't like categories, but the only thing I could think of is inspirational."

In a society where black people have power, beating children and posting it on social media is just as much about performing respectability as it is punishing wrongdoing.

If white people are informed that they are also harmed by America's pervasive racial segregation, will they be moved to try to decrease it?

What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?

Kellyanne Conway's breach of Oval Office etiquette ushered a wave of reaction online, while a little independent film reigned on Oscar night and had everyone in their feelings.