Race & Identity

A new state office will document discrimination from Vermont laws and policies and make recommendations for accountability.

President Biden visits Selma for the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday." Residents there are still recovering from tornadoes that ripped through the city in January.

White farmers' suits blocked a USDA program and led to a race-neutral approach.

The comic's creator, Scott Adams, said a recent opinion poll changed his mind about "helping Black Americans."

For decades, a congregation in North Thetford had been dwindling. So they decided to donate their building to a group that could make more use of it. That’s how the church ended up in the hands of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust.

In a move that some Black Vermonters are calling a blow to the state’s racial equity movement, the Vermont Senate voted Tuesday to confirm a judge whose spouse was fired from the Vermont State Police for a pattern of unlawful searches that often targeted motorists or color.

Vermont Edition shares a special presentation of the podcast Timeline from Vermont Public Classical, where host James Stewart introduces listeners to Julius Eastman, an openly gay Black composer fro the 70s and 80s whose music is only now being rediscovered.

Host Connor Cyrus talks to Black Vermonters on what the term Black excellence means to them, and about Black creativity and the importance of Black history.

Beverly Little Thunder has served on the nine-person Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs since 2019. In her email letter, Little Thunder said she was stepping down because of “deceit and dysfunction.”

A University of Vermont official apologized for causing harm to state-recognized tribes through an event hosted by the school last spring.The event, held last April, featured Abenaki representatives from Odanak First Nation in Quebec. They reiterated their stance that Vermont’s state-recognized tribes have not provided genealogical or historical support showing they are Abenaki.