Race and ethnicity

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Kyle Rittenhouse, right, turns to defense attorney Corey Chirafisi at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., in a Nov. 19, 2021 image from courtroom video, as Rittenhouse reacts to the jury’s verdict acquitting him of all charges in the shooting deaths of two men and the wounding of a third during protests over the 2020 shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.a Black man,. he was acquitted of all charges at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. The jury came back with its verdict after close to 3 1/2 days of deliberation. (AP Photo)

Fatalities

Enterprising AP coverage of Rittenhouse trial reaches far beyond the courtroom testimony

NOV. 26, 2021

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A pickup truck with a Confederate flag-themed decal is parked outside the Reception and Medical Center, a Florida prison hospital where new inmates are processed, in Lake Butler, Fla., April 16, 2021. An AP investigation revealed state prison guards openly touting associations with white supremacist groups to intimidate inmates and Black colleagues, a persistent practice that goes unpunished and is allowed to fester in Florida and prisons elsewhere in the U.S. (AP Photo / David Goldman, File)

Florida

AP investigation reveals white supremacists working in Florida prisons, race-based abuse of inmates

NOV. 26, 2021

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In this Sept. 23, 2021, photo Jhaimarion, 10, listens during an AP interview in Chicago, Sept. 23, 2021, as his mother, Krystal Archie, describes traumatic experiences with police. Archie’s three children were present when police, on two occasions just 11 weeks apart, kicked open her front door and tore through their home searching for drug suspects. She’d never heard of the people they were looking for. The family was ordered to get down on the floor; Jhaimarion, the youngest, was 7 at the time. An AP investigation explores how Black and brown children are disproportionately affected by police force. (AP Photo / Nam Y. Huh)

Law enforcement

AP investigation reveals police using force disproportionately against Black, brown children

OCT. 29, 2021

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Supporters of a Shiite group allied with Hezbollah help an injured comrade during armed clashes that erupted during a protest in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Oct. 14, 2021. The chaotic street fighting between Shiite Muslim and Christian factions erupted during a protest organized by the Hezbollah group against the judge leading the probe into the 2020 blast in the city’s port, and raised the specter of a return to sectarian violence in Lebanon. (AP Photo / Hassan Ammar)

Beirut port blast

Anticipation, preparation by Beirut photo team delivers standout coverage of deadly street battles

OCT. 22, 2021

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A farmer walks past Chinese government propaganda depicting ethnic minority residents reading the constitution with a slogan reading: “Unity, Stability is fortune, Separatism and Turmoil is misfortune,” near Kashgar in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, March 19, 2021. Four years after Beijing’s brutal crackdown on largely Muslim minorities native to Xinjiang, Chinese authorities are dialing back the region’s high-tech police state and stepping up tourism. But even as a sense of normality returns, fear of the authorities remains, hidden but pervasive. (AP Photo / Ng Han Guan)

China

Of terror and tourism: Resourceful AP reporting from the Uyghur homeland in China

OCT. 15, 2021

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A young girl holds her stuffed animal overhead as migrants, many from Haiti, wade across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio, Texas, returning to Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, to avoid deportation, Sept. 20, 2021. The U.S. was flying Haitians camped in the Texas border town back to their homeland and blocking others from crossing the border from Mexico. (AP Photo / Félix Márquez)

Haiti

Across formats, across countries: AP dominates coverage of border migrant encampment

OCT. 1, 2021

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In this March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by The Associated Press, Louisiana State Trooper Jacob Brown slams motorist DeShawn Washington against the hood of a police cruiser during a traffic stop in Ouachita Parish, La., after troopers found marijuana in the trunk of Washington’s car, in a March 2, 2019 image from police dashboard camera video obtained by the AP. Use of force was omitted from the police report. (Louisiana State Police via AP)

Law enforcement

AP investigation reveals pattern of beatings, shrouded in secrecy, by Louisiana State Police

SEPT. 17, 2021

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Fatality

AP: Louisiana police brass eyed for obstruction of justice in Black motorist’s deadly arrest

AUG. 13, 2021

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A security officer in protective gear gestures as he stands in a hallway with rooms for video meetings with inmates in the visitors' hall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, April 23, 2021. AP’s reporting suggests that while many of China’s “training centers” have closed, some like this one were simply converted into prisons or pre-trial detention facilities, largely for vast numbers of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities. (AP Photo / Mark Schiefelbein)

China

AP gets first look inside China’s largest detention center, breaks news on Uyghur incarceration

JULY 30, 2021

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California

AP reveals a water crisis at the boiling point for Native Americans, farmers in Western river basin

JULY 9, 2021

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Jerry Ramos is remembered with a collection displayed at his home in Watsonville, Calif., June 6, 2021. A father and essential worker, Ramos died Feb. 15 at age 32, becoming one of more than 600,000 Americans who have perished in the pandemic — and an example of COVID-19’s strikingly uneven and ever-shifting toll on the nation’s racial and ethnic groups. Latinos between 30 and 39 have died at five times the rate of white people in the same age group.(AP Photo / Nic Coury)

Coronavirus

AP marks 600,000-death milestone with distinctive data-driven look at COVID racial inequality

JUNE 25, 2021

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In this Saturday, May 23, 2020 image from Louisiana State Police body camera video, An unidentified law enforcement officer applies an electric weapon to the back of motorist Antonio Harris as officers restrain Harris after a high speed chase in Franklin Parish, La., May 23, 2020, in an image from Louisiana State Police body camera video. Troop F of the State Police, a 66-officer unit, has become notorious in recent years for alleged acts of brutality that have resulted in felony charges against some of its troopers.Troopers from the (Larry Shappley / Louisiana State Police via AP)

Law enforcement

AP Exclusive: Secret panel investigating Louisiana State Police unit’s treatment of Black motorists

JUNE 18, 2021

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