The Reparation Priority Bill Package does not include cash payouts to Black residents across the board. The California Legislative Black Caucus introduced more than a dozen reparation-related bills Wednesday, the…
The set of bills notably excludes direct cash payments. The 14 measures introduced by the Legislative Black Caucus touch on education, civil rights and criminal justice, including reviving a years-old…
“You took some of my freedom away, Mr. Elliot, that I am afraid to go out by myself, or afraid of riding the subway, afraid of being around people,” Vilma…
In the fall of 2021, Jacob Geersen, a marine geologist now at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, was teaching a one-week field course at the University of Kiel.…
Amanda Zurawski told NBC News exclusively that she finds the prospect of Texas restricting in vitro fertilization "absolutely terrifying." A woman who is suing Texas after she said she nearly…
Poverty in New York City is rising at a startling rate and it's affecting the city's most vulnerable residents -- children, according to a newly released report. More than half…
A close look at North Minneapolis tells us more — but not enough — about child gun deaths. The Trace is the nation’s only newsroom dedicated to covering gun violence…
The decision comes in the wake of a sweeping state high court decision. The health system at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is the first fertility clinic to pause…
Denied burial alongside Union soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg, the 30 or so men were instead buried in the all-Black Lincoln Cemetery At the edge of a busy…
Under new repatriation rules, museums must gain consent from Native American tribes before displaying their cultural items. Some museums rushed to comply, but others, such as the Museum of Us…