50 Years After DC Burned, the Injustices That Caused the Riots Are as Urgent as Ever
Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a moment, the peace seemed to hold. It was the evening of April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. had just been killed by a gunman in Memphis. An angry crowd had gathered at 14th and U streets NW, the nexus…
The FBI Is Too White—And It Considers That a “Huge Operational Risk”
FBI Director Christopher Wray. Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. For the FBI, the long-standing failure to diversify its ranks is nothing short of “a huge operational risk,” according to one senior official, something that compromises the agency’s ability…
A New Report Has Some Grim News About Black Babies
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For decades, the number of American babies born too small was on the decline. But new data suggests the rate may be ticking up again—especially among African Americans. The World Health Organization defines an underweight newborn as weighing less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces. In…
Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America
liveslow/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is threatening the 2020 census from every direction: Cutting its budget, scaring immigrants away from answering its questions, and prohibiting the Census Bureau from hiring the best people for the job. While we have to defend this invaluable source of…
A Federal Judge Ordered Wealthy Orange County to Find Housing for its Homeless
Denise Lindstrom, a 49-year-old homeless woman, sits in a wheelchair in front of a moving truck in an homeless encampment on the Santa Ana River trail in Anaheim, Calif.Jae C. Hong/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A federal judge in California is fed up with how officials in affluent Orange…
Black Lives Movement Pioneer Has a Story to Tell
Patrisse Kahn-CullorsAmy Harris/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For most of us, the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2015, after the death of Michael Brown Jr. at the hands of a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer. But for Patrisse Khan-Cullors, one of three black women credited with launching the hashtag…