Opelousas resident Shauna Sias questions why people want to challenge a Louisiana congressional district created to afford Black communities fair representation. (Adam Mahoney/Capital B) ST. LANDRY ...

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The deaths of eight people detained at the Atlanta-area jail raise new questions about the scandal-plagued facility. In 2023, when four detainees died, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia called for the U ...

Homelessness experts and local leaders say such personal questions exacerbate racial disparities in the ranks of the nation’s ...

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Saundra Bishop has many memories inside the idyllic pink, craftsman-styled Alpha Kappa Alpha house in Los Angeles. The space ...

Writer and scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs makes greens almost every day: chard, kale and — this time of the year — heaping pots ...