Looking back at a decade of revolution, authoritarian coups and lessons for U.S. democracy Ten years ago this...
Jan 29, 2021
Lingering trauma: Families separated at border suffer long-term mental health challenges
BALTIMORE — A father cried uncontrollably during group therapy, recounting how tired he was from the journey of migrating...
Jan 28, 2021
America turns the page
WASHINGTON — Fireworks exploding spectacularly over a nearly deserted National Mall on Wednesday evening closed a nail-biting day...
Jan 21, 2021
VERMONT
Racism in Bernie Sanders’ state? Yes, say powerful Black women forced to leave southern Vermont
RUTLAND, Vt. — Paint, strewn across a Black Lives Matter lawn sign her daughter made, marked a turning...
Jan 21, 2021
Civil Rights generation sees echoes of Jim Crow in Capitol attack
WASHINGTON – Shirley Ann Queen remembers being 10 years old when Mr. Horton, the white owner of the...
Jan 18, 2021
Senate newcomer Rev. Raphael Warnock an heir to MLK’s work
ATLANTA — When Senator-elect Reverend Raphael Warnock embarked on his Senate race, he did so as a continuation of...
Jan 18, 2021
The Capitol riots showed U.S. democracy’s vulnerability. How does that affect its global influence?
When rioters burst into the United States Capitol building last week, the images of broken doors, shattered windows...
Jan 15, 2021
From ‘high cotton’ to dead end: What one South Carolina project teaches us about public housing
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For Latifa Anderson, who grew up in the Allen Benedict Court public housing project in...
Jan 14, 2021
Learning online without a home: How families devastated by Oregon’s fires are trying to keep up with school
MEDFORD, Ore. – By Sept. 8, the day Elda Medina, 33, was supposed to go to her daughter’s...
Jan 12, 2021
After Georgia wins, voting rights advocates see a window for election reform
Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock swept Georgia’s Senate runoff races on Tuesday, capping Georgia's astonishing...
Jan 08, 2021
ON THE GROUND IN WICHITA, KS
Can the pandemic lead to worker solidarity in Kansas? Lessons from 100 years ago.
WICHITA, Kansas — On Aug. 25, 1922, in a headline for an article in the weekly labor newspaper, the...
Jan 08, 2021