Oregon last month expanded testing criteria to prioritize Latinos and other minorities, citing the higher risk posed from the virus because of “long-standing social and health inequities.” At the Virginia…
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the police had enforced rules properly, but other officials expressed concern about tactics similar to unfair “stop and frisk” practices. Credit...Marian Carrasquero for The New…
All struggles against oppression have participants whose valor does not receive the recognition it deserves. Dennis Goldberg, who died in Cape Town last month at the age of 87, was…
Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist remembers the life well-lived of Tadashi Tsufura, who was forced to live in an internment camp at age 12 with his family for two years during…
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — When the Glynn County Police Department arrived at the scene of a fatal shooting in February in southeastern Georgia, officers encountered a former colleague with the victim’s…
The city will limit access to two parks in Manhattan and Brooklyn as part of a new strategy to enforce social distancing, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Friday. NYPD officers…
When the Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency approval last week for an antiviral drug, remdesivir, to treat hospitalized coronavirus patients, many doctors were overjoyed. The drug is the…
London (CNN)Black people in the UK are four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people and a number of other ethnic groups are also at an increased…
James Ravenell, an IT professional and founder of the national group Black Runners Connection, calls running his meditation — an escape from the daily stress of being black in America.…
"What else do you call mass death by public policy?” asked Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves, as draft FEMA documents project 3,000 deaths a day. A Yale epidemiologist pulled no punches with…