Race

FILE - Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce, right, greets Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris, left, after an NFL football game Dec. 16, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker, File)
FILE - Las Vegas Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce, right, greets Atlanta Falcons head coach Raheem Morris, left, after an NFL football game Dec. 16, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker, File)

Football

11 NFL teams have never had a Black head coach. Players find that disappointing

FEB. 5, 2025

FILE - A couple awaits the arrival of their first child in Carlsbad, Calif., in November 2005. (AP Photo/Julie Busch, File)
FILE - A couple awaits the arrival of their first child in Carlsbad, Calif., in November 2005. (AP Photo/Julie Busch, File)

Pregnancy

Racial gap widened in deaths among US moms around the time of childbirth

FEB. 5, 2025

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Civil rights

APNewsBreak reveals renewed investigation into Emmett Till killing

JULY 20, 2018

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Business

AP lands elusive first interview with two black men arrested at Starbucks

APRIL 27, 2018

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In this Nov. 11, 2017, photo, provided by Reveal, Rachelle Faroul, right, and her partner, Hanako Franz, sit outside their new home in Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 2017. “I had a fair amount of savings and still had so much trouble just left and right,” said Faroul, who was rejected twice by lenders when she tried to buy a brick row house close to Malcolm X Park in Philadelphia. (Sarah Blesener / Reveal via AP)

Banking

AP collaboration exposes unequal lending practices across the country

FEB. 23, 2018

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Protesters gather outside the state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., June 16, 2017, after police Officer Jeronimo Yanez was cleared in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile, a black motorist whose death captured national attention when his girlfriend streamed the grim aftermath on Facebook. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Government

AP gets first juror comment in Philando Castile trial

JUNE 23, 2017

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In this photo taken Thursday, May 11, 2017, Andre Shavers, who runs a marijuana delivery business, walks up a street in Oakland, Calif. The City of Oakland is prodding cannabis businesses to pair with minority applicants if they want a license to sell, manufacture, cultivate or distribute weed in 2018 as part of California's massive expansion of legal cannabis. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Cannabis

Diversifying pot: How some states are luring minorities into the legal business

JUNE 9, 2017

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In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 photo, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones prepares to bat against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, May 3, 2017, two days after Jones was targeted with racial slurs at Fenway. The teams play the final game of their series, one filled with player ejections and fan controversies, at Fenway Park on Thursday evening. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Baseball

Fenway incident prompts a deeper look at racial issues in Boston sports

MAY 11, 2017

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Workers dismantle the Liberty Place monument Monday, April 24, 2017, which commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government, in New Orleans. It was removed overnight in an attempt to avoid disruption from supporters who want the monuments to stay. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Civil rights

At middle-of-the-night removal of Confederate statue in New Orleans, AP offers exclusive

MAY 5, 2017

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