On Tuesday, we reported the mysterious story of 29-year-old Jayvon Givan, who, in September of last year, was found hanging from a pillar and a metal chain in a commercial building near Albuquerque. The Albuquerque Police Department and the Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI) determined his death […]
The College Board has quietly discontinued a tool that helped universities identify high-achieving students from disadvantaged schools and neighborhoods, following the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling striking down race-based affirmative action. That program, called Landscape, does not search by race, but instead allows universities to search various categories related to […]
Despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that residents, especially Black residents, in Democrat-run cities are in favor of his deployment of National Guard troops to fight allegedly out-of-control crime in their neighborhoods, polls consistently show that most American voters — including most residents of Washington, D.C., and Chicago — oppose his weaponization […]
Every September, Americans congregate and fellowship in honor of workers’ contributions and the victories of the Labor movement, including workplace safety, the right to organize, and the eight-hour workday. In a nation designed and built by slaves, Labor Day marks the long struggle to move closer […]
For decades, the Albina district in Portland, Oregon, was the center of the city’s Black community. Local musicians transformed the neighborhoods into a hotspot for the West Coast’s jazz, blues, and soul music scenes, earning Albina the nickname “Jumptown” in the 1940s and ‘50s. Milestones in Oregon’s civil […]
This story is part of “Trump Two: Six Months In,” our series taking stock of the administration’s efforts to reshape immigration enforcement and criminal justice. Over the last six months, Rodney Taylor has watched the Trump administration’s explosion in immigration enforcement from a detention cell […]
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