The cacophonous gyms of Texas were, in many ways, Natalie Chou’s second childhood home. And yet a part of her felt out of place.

On June 19, 1865, the last of the African American slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally told they were free, about two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

Juneteenth, a day that memorializes the emancipation of slaves in this country, is now a federal holiday.

Tyler Parry joins Speak Up! to discuss the history of “Jumping the Broom.”

At the intersection of music and activism stands Olmeca with a megaphone in hand making proclamations. The rapper’s words speak not of death and hellfire and a looming end of times but of cross-cultural compassion and understanding.

After a viral tweet about abuse targeted at an actor in the upcoming iCarly reboot, experts explain the widespread racism against Black women.

This episode examines our personal relationships to pornography and erotica and how they’re shaped by dominant cultural narratives about pleasure.

Home is where the heart is and for many native Hawaiians and Las Vegas has become their adopted home. In fact, so many have settled in Southern Nevada that Vegas has earned a reputation as being the "ninth island."

You may have heard of the term AAPI on the news in recent months, but if you didn’t know it stands for Asian American Pacific Islander.

Clark County schools educate more than 300,000 students whose backgrounds are from almost every ethnicity, race and culture. But the school district still has no anti-racism policy.

With less than a month to the end of the 2021 Nevada Legislature's regular session, a bill to abolish the use of the death penalty, AB395, has made more progress toward becoming law than any similar bill in state history.

Men out-earn women in both traditionally male-dominated and female-dominated professions, according to recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Among a variety of professions, the gender pay gap exists.