diversity

Two bills backed by the City Council and expected to become law mandate more diversity and inclusion training, building upon instruction already required.

Since issuing a report on the subject in 2014, UCLA’s Civil Rights Project found many of the city’s schools grew much less diverse.

More than a third of all criminal defendants on Long Island are Black Men but the people prosecuting their cases are overwhelmingly white.

Marijuana legalization in other states often excluded those with black market experience and disproportionately left out people of color. Could New York break the legacy?

You might listen to a man in deep eastern Queens tell a story about his childhood in his native Amuzgo, or read about how 3,000 German refugees speaking Palatine German were stranded on Governors Island in 1710.

"Over and over, we heard about the 'dehumanizing' and 'demeaning cattle-call culture' in these high-volume courts."

Barnes & Noble scrapped its tone-deaf plans to celebrate Black History Month with a campaign that rendered classic literature characters as black on newly redesigned book covers.

Effectively, the group recommends eliminating lower school admissions based on grades, test scores, attendance, and auditions.

New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza brushed off criticism from a group of local lawmakers, calling it 'a distraction.'

Over the past month, unhappy parents from this swath of brownstone Brooklyn have been lighting up local listservs with concerns about their assigned schools and questions about the process.