Signs demanding statehood for Washington are distributed during the DC Emancipation Day Parade in April 2024. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Federal Overhaul is a multipart ...

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

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

When you start to fiddle around with history, that isn’t what makes a country great. It makes us weaker,” one historian says.

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

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Three employees — two of whom received layoff notices on Tuesday — told Capital B Atlanta that the CDC’s labor force ...

At the University of Louisville, students have mobilized to counter the administration’s assault on inclusion.

Fears grow that the new policies not only threaten economic stability, but will intensify existing inequalities.