Residents have been in a fight with county leaders over their voting rights and zoning changes that threaten to lead to ...

The 17-year-old suspect said he was acting in self-defense; if convicted of first-degree murder, he could be sentenced to life in prison.

In a country that calls itself a model of democracy, “we sit in a district that doesn’t experience democracy in the same way, ...

Eddie Ellis and John Pace were sentenced to life in prison as teens and are now fighting to change the laws that kept them ...

Monopoly utilities are retreating from racial justice pledges made in 2020, signaling that "Black lives mattered, briefly, as ...

What’s at stake for cities like Gary, Indiana, Beaumont, Texas, and San Francisco when protections go away amid the Trump ...

Pastor Jamal Bryant has been instrumental in leading an economic protest against the retailer, which rolled back its DEI ...

Last year, Sapelo Island residents sued county officials for blocking them from holding a crucial vote that could determine whether they would be displaced from the last Gullah Gechee community on the ...

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Eboni Tomasek expected to take home her newborn the day after he was born in a San Jose, California, hospital. But, without explanation, hospital staff said they needed to stay a second night. Then a ...

Protesters gather outside Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to demand further action to protect Black pregnant patients. Black women in California are at least three times as likely as white women to die ...