In California, Black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

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After a historic federal agreement to address the state's sewage crisis is scrapped, Black residents in Lowndes County are left exposed to raw waste.

Eddie Ellis and John Pace were sentenced to life in prison as teens and are now fighting to change the laws that kept them ...

Signs demanding statehood for Washington are distributed during the DC Emancipation Day Parade in April 2024. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post via Getty Images) Federal Overhaul is a multipart ...

What’s at stake for cities like Gary, Indiana, Beaumont, Texas, and San Francisco when protections go away amid the Trump ...

Monopoly utilities are retreating from racial justice pledges made in 2020, signaling that "Black lives mattered, briefly, as ...

When you start to fiddle around with history, that isn’t what makes a country great. It makes us weaker,” one historian says.

As tariffs drive up costs, Black businesses face a dual challenge: economic survival and preserving community anchors.