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NPR's Michel Martin asks three academics from Commonwealth countries to reflect on the British Empire's complicated legacy on race.

Social distancing is strongly encouraged as the coronavirus spreads throughout the U.S., but many are making the best out of staying home.

It's happening more: minorities are deemed suspicious by a white person who then calls police. Experts say that echoes a past that excluded blacks from public spaces but now it's done with police.

What happens when people stop trusting their government's economic data? Planet Money reports on what happened in Greece.

An effort to diversify genetic studies has led to a discovery about Parkinson's disease in people of African descent.

Immigration attorneys say they are hearing more reports of people being held in overcrowded conditions, sometimes in rooms so crowded there isn't space to lie down.

A forthcoming referendum called "Indigenous Voice to Parliament" in Australia has sparked debate on whether First Nations people should be part of the consultation process involving Government policy.

A senior White House official says transgender individuals will not be allowed to join the armed services. Meanwhile, the Trump administration will determine what to do with those already serving.

The Sleeping Bus Tour is a 5-hour, 47-mile ride to nowhere on a double-decker bus. It's designed for people who are easily put to sleep on moving vehicles. Passengers can bring pillows and blankets.

In The Chair, Oh plays a professor who is the first woman and person of color to head the English department at a prestigious college. Oh says she "profoundly" understood the themes of the show.