Three years after publishing “The Truth in Black and White,” this is how The Star has changed, and where we still see that there is work for our newsroom to do to improve.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony and launch service was held Oct. 8 for the new Purpose City Church in Aurora, bringing together a Black congregation and a White congregation as one unified church.

Every news outlet that covered the shooting led with the race of Yarl and of Lester. Yarl was inevitably identified as a “Black” teenager and Lester as a “white” homeowner. The Kansas City district ...

White people have flocked back to city centers — and transformed them ... Almost all the city’s Black residents used to live here. Today, Five Points is more than 50 percent White.

Black prosperity has provoked white resentment that can make life exhausting for people of color—and it has led to the undoing of policies that have nurtured Black advancement.

With America’s white conservatives increasingly drawn to Christian nationalism, many Black believers feel caught between their faith and the long shadow of history.