Relationship Between Police and Media Grows Increasingly Tense
As the uprising for racial justice continues around the country, journalists in the United States are increasingly the targets of direct and hostile confrontations with law enforcement.
Why Are States Criminalizing Fossil Fuel Protests?
Some states have been quietly passing laws to criminalize fossil fuel protests amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
COVID19 Budget Cuts Prevent Many from Accessing Subsidized Summer Programs
New York City's budget proposal has $235 million worth of cuts to public summer programs. Many low income families could be affected without access to these programs.
What Juneteenth Means At this Moment
Juneteenth commemorates the day when enslaved people in Texas learned about their emancipation, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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