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Last week, a white professor at George Washington University outed herself in a years-long charade in which she told people she was Black and built an academic career around this...

About a month ago, we laid out five ways that Republicans are making it harder to vote and more generally undermining the electoral process in 2020. We focused on Republicans...

This illustration was based on the article How the fossil fuel industry drives climate change and police brutality by Grist reporter (and artist) Alexandria Herr. Alexandria Herr / Grist

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For the first time, a Black woman will lead Kentucky’s Louisville Metro Police Department, which has been been heavily criticized since officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in...

A group of protesters stood naked outside a building in Rochester, New York to protest the death of an unarmed Black man.Some of the demonstrators wore nothing but "spit hoods"...

Democratic U.S. presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden makes a fist as he answers questions from reporters after a speech about the effects on the U.S. economy of...

Doctor and pharmacist Gilles Leboucher prepares a diluted solution of phages from three different concentrated types of phages on March 8, 2019, at the Croix-Rousse hospital, in Lyon, central-eastern France....

The revelation that Melania Trump regularly used a private Trump Organization email account and an account from a MelaniaTrump.com domain and the encrypted messaging app Signal while in the White...

Public trust in the media has reached an all-time low, according to a poll of over 20,000 people released last week by Gallup and the Knight Foundation. “Americans have not...

Fierce police union lobbying killed some important measures, but many other good bills won the day. On Tuesday Trump took a race-baiting excursion to Kenosha, Wis. He used the opportunity...