The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants.

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“The Department of Education is on fire,” added Johnson, who moved from Atlanta to Maryland’s majority-Black Prince George’s ...

Kyren Lacy, seen in College Station, Texas, prior to an October 2024 game between the LSU Tigers and Texas A&M Aggies, died at 24 by suicide in April. (Ella Hall/LSU/University Images via Getty Images ...

Competitors prepare to ride into the arena before the start of competition at the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo in Memphis, Tennessee in 2017. A new album by Beyoncé is bringing new attention to the ...

Debra Ramirez says she doesn’t remember a time when the water in her communities in the Lake Charles, Louisiana, area wasn’t murky. She has advocated for remediation and climate reparations for ...

President Donald Trump reversed progress on climate change and reinforced his commitment to fossil fuels on Monday. While his campaign fanned the flames of culture wars and economic propaganda, his ...

Alma Jean Thomas-Carney is a local historian, civil rights activist, and entrepreneur who brought the first health clinic to Haywood County. She seen at the Dunbar Carver Museum in Brownsville, ...

Veronica Leslie, a lifelong resident of Beaumont, Texas, says she focuses on making her home as livable as possible, despite the looming presence of ExxonMobil. (Adam Mahoney/Capital B) When Tara ...

Larry Hoover, founder of a notorious Chicago street gang who has spent the past three decades in solitary confinement in federal prison, was granted clemency by President Donald Trump on Wednesday — ...

The Angola prison rodeo brought in nearly half a million dollars a week in October for the state of Louisiana, largely through the labor of inmates who when not participating in the event can make as ...