“Air pollution and pollution in general is segregated, and so is America,” one expert said. When Sharon Lavigne was a little girl in rural Louisiana, she remembers the air being…
With tech companies' moderation efforts constrained by the pandemic, distributors of child sexual exploitation material are growing bolder, using major platforms to try to draw audiences. Michael Oghia was on…
“Women’s needs are obscured in ways that have real consequences … ” Coronavirus outbreaks have transformed prisons into hot spots of infection, and among the societal inequalities the pandemic is exposing along…
“Just accept us as humans,” Lin said of those outside the Asian American community. Jeremy Lin has a heavy heart these days. With Asian America weathering heightened anti-Asian sentiment amid…
The CDC and DOJ worked to stop bias incidents and hate crimes following the SARS outbreak and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. No such plans have been released amid the coronavirus…
“While a global pandemic shuttering schools and businesses feels like new territory, many of our families still bear the scars of the 1918 influenza pandemic,” Amy Patterson says. The diary…
Editor's Note: CNN host Van Jones is the CEO of the REFORM Alliance, a criminal justice organization. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on…
A Michigan state senator has apologized for showing up to the state Capitol wearing a face mask that appeared to depict the Confederate flag. "I’m sorry for my choice of…
Not many public health experts have been calling for new limits on immigration as a major part of the U.S. strategy to fight the spread of the coronavirus. In fact, some health…
Another pandemic is looming on the heels of the coronavirus: a pandemic of starvation, illiteracy and poverty. “We are not only facing a global health pandemic but also a global humanitarian…