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A Latinx community shares how music is used to bring people together amid racism in both the U.S. and Latin America. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

In June, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, NBC 5 began moderating virtual conversations with panelists to discuss race in Chicago and how Chicagoans can work together to make real change. These discussions were so engaging and so powerful, we kept doing them — and will continue to do so! Listen to past conversations below! Panelists...

In today’s edition of our “Race in Chicago” series, Alex Maragos explains how there has been progress made in terms of housing equality for Black Chicagoans, but there is still plenty of work to be done both in the city, and nationally.

In tonight’s installment of our “Race in Chicago” series, a couple spent an entire year buying products and services from Black-owned companies, but faced a lot of unexpected hurdles in doing so. NBC 5’s LeeAnn Trotter has more.

In today’s edition of “Race in Chicago,” NBC 5’s Lexi Sutter examines the divide that limits the access of minority communities to mental health care.

If there was one thing in life former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington loved, it was being mayor. “We’re number one, we’re number one, one, one,” he grinned and chanted with a female group of Chicago Bears fans during the team’s run to the 1986 Super Bowl title. Washington relished moments of levity, even in the midst of a titanic...

Members of the LGBTQ community shared their experiences with discrimination in light of Federal Bureau of Investigation data, which put race and sexual orientation as the top motivators for hate crimes. NBC 5’s Chris Hush reports.

George Floyd’s tragic interaction with police has demonstrated the importance of a conversation that happens in many Black homes. In today’s edition of “Race in Chicago,” NBC 5’s Christian Farr has the story of a conversation simply known as “the talk.”

When Chicago Public School (CPS) students were shifted to online learning in the spring of 2020, it was a reality check for the district, for parents, and for students. During the immediate aftermath of the decision, CPS scrambled to hand out more than 128,000 devices. Another 39,000 were distributed when it was announced students would continue re...

A Chicago family’s journey dates back to one of the worst race riots in the country. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports how a pioneering entrepreneur in Tulsa fought for fairness and left a legacy of greatness.

Marshan Allen was 15 years old when he says his brother sent him and two other older teens to an apartment on the South side of Chicago to take back cash and coke stolen by a fellow gang member. Allen insists he had no idea the older teens would open fire through the front door that day in March 1992,…