The Voting Rights Act was not racial favoritism. It was a protection created in response to a long and documented history of racial violence and exclusion. However, the United States…
More than 130 former detainees from San Bernardino County juvenile detention facilities have filed a lawsuit alleging they were sexually abused while in custody as part of a systemic culture…
By Jessie Hellmann, CQ-Roll Call MANCHESTER, England — Alison Starkie spends her days tracking down people who need testing or treatment for hepatitis C, especially those who are unhoused or…
Listen to article • 0:00 minNewark officials instituted a mandatory curfew Sunday around the Delaney Hall immigration detention center after ongoing protests led to clashes between protesters and police officers…
Americans’ loss of faith in our institutions of higher learning can be traced to more than one cause. The ever-rising cost and concerns about how degrees translate into jobs are…
Two women were stabbed to death in a Brooklyn apartment building, cops said Sunday. The building on 2nd St. near Fifth Ave. in Park Slope was previously the scene of…
Listen to article • 0:00 minJohn Cole spent 18 years as editorial cartoonist for The (Scranton) Times-Tribune, and now draws for various statesnewsroom.com sites.
Listen to article • 0:00 minIncomes have increased nearly everywhere across Philadelphia over the last decade. But in some pockets of the city, they’ve skyrocketed. In the South Philadelphia cluster…
On Thursday evening, restaurateur and author Keith McNally received the 2026 Gotham Book Prize at the Museum of the City of New York for his memoir “I Regret Almost Everything.”…
Listen to article • 0:00 minPope Leo XIV apologizing for slavery within his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, was not on my bingo card.As an African American and a fourth-generation Catholic…
