Race

The Supreme Court rejected former President Donald Trump's executive order and upheld birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment in the case identified as...

NPR published maps showing changes to congressional district lines in six states that, the piece reports, reflect outcomes of a redistricting effort that President T...

An analysis by The Marshall Project of federal child-welfare data (NDACAN and CDC birth counts) covering fiscal years roughly 2018–2024 found that the parents of Bla...

In Wolford v. Lopez (2026) the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6–3 decision, struck down a Hawaii rule that effectively required licensed gun owners to obtain express permi...

Federal prosecutors in Louisville asked a judge to dismiss charges against two former Louisville Metro Police officers, former Detective Joshua Jaynes and former Sgt...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division filed to join a class-action lawsuit challenging the City of Evanston, Illinois' Local Reparations Restorative...

Historian Justene Hill Edwards, in her book Savings and Trust, tells the story of the Freedman's Bank, a financial institution created after the Civil War to serve f...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6–3 emergency order allowing Alabama to use a congressional map adopted by the state legislature in 2023 for upcoming elections, incl...

Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Louisiana Republican leaders approved a new congressional map t...

A three-judge panel ruled that Tennessee’s redrawn congressional map may remain in place for the state’s August 6 primary, rejecting legal claims that the map was dr...

This article is an excerpt from Lauren Collins's forthcoming book They Stole a City (publishing July 14, 2026). Collins examines the events of November 1898 in Wilmi...

Black Californians United for Early Care and Education (BlackECE), a coalition including Californians Together, Catalyst California and Early Edge, is urging that Bl...