Deepti Hajela

As a new generation steps up, activists and historians believe there’s important work to be done for white people: Listening to black voices and following rather than trying to lead, for one, and the deep introspection it takes to confront unconscious bias and the perks of privilege that come just from being white.

The harassment of Alaska-based soldier Danny Chen started in basic training -- teasing about his name and whether he was from China, though he was a New Yorker. He wrote in a journal that he was running out of jokes to respond with.

An Alaska-based teenage Army private who committed suicide just weeks after getting to Afghanistan had been mistreated by comrades on an almost daily basis, his family and community representatives said investigators told them.