Channel 4 News Washington bureau has been reporting extensively on the issue of race in America over the past year.
Kylie Morris, Washington Correspondent, and team have been on the frontline of the race riots in Baltimore and Ferguson – often witnessing riot gear police firing tear gas, and throwing stun grenades at protestors.
The debate surrounding race in the United States however has not only been limited to the streets.
Channel 4 News has also spoken to British actor David Oyelowo about a race row brewing in Hollywood and met students in Alabama, 60 years after separating back and white pupils was ruled unlawful, and found that re-segregation was on the rise.
Here is a look back at our reports and interviews in the past year – to see how the topic of race is re-shaping the United States.
In April, Channel 4 News was on the ground in Baltimore as it descended into flames and chaos, following the death in police custody of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man. Six police officers have since been charged with a range of crimes including murder and manslaughter.
Earlier in the month, in Cleveland, Kylie spoke to Ricky Jackson, who served an extraordinary 39 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Ricky is one of the many black Americans being successfully freed thanks to the Ohio Innocence Project.
Meanwhile, in the entertainment world, British actor David Oyelowo told Channel 4 News in January that “Hollywood still has a problem with black powerful characters in the centre of their own narrative, driving their own destiny forward.” Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King in Selma, was speaking after the film picked up just two nominations at the Oscars.
In December, Channel 4 News was in New York City as thousands of demonstrators marched through streets to demand justice for the chokehold death of an unarmed African American. Kylie spoke to protesters waving banners which read “I can’t breathe”, the last words of 43-year-old Eric Garner, who died in July.
In August, Kylie was in Ferguson, Missouri, as police in riot gear fired tear gas, and threw stun grenades at young people protesting in memory of the black teenager Michael Brown. He was unarmed when he was shot by a white police officer, who faced no charges after the grand jury decided not to indict.
In May last year, Kylie spoke to black students in Alabama – where re-segregation is on the rise – despite it being 60 years since a landmark court case which outlawed forced racial segregation in American schools.
In April 2014, Channel 4 News looked at the issues surrounding race in sport after the NBA banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5m for privately recorded comments that were released online. Sterling apologised what he’d said and told Anderson Cooper that he wasn’t a racist. Talking to basketball players in Washington DC, Kylie found there was anger at his comments but little surprise.