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U.S. Park Police faced protestors in Lafayette Square on May 31 and June 1, 2020.

Park Police radio channels unrecorded for years, watchdog says

By Benjamin J. Hulac
Posted July 6, 2022 at 5:56pm
Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C., is co-chair of the Black Maternal Health Caucus.

Lawmakers, advocates hopeful for more bills to curb maternal deaths

By Sandhya Raman
Posted April 20, 2022 at 6:30am
President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till anti-lynching act, making lynching a hate crime under federal law.

Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 29, 2022 at 5:48pm
President Barack Obama talks in 2013 with Maxine McNair, whose daughter Denise was killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala. McNair died on Jan. 2 at the age of 93.

Americans who excuse violence need to see the world through Maxine McNair’s eyes — and soul

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted January 13, 2022 at 6:00am
Reproductive rights activists hold cut-out letters during a protest outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 1.

FDA loosens restrictions on medication abortion drug

By Sandhya Raman
Posted December 16, 2021 at 6:24pm
People attend a vigil in Oxford, Mich., on Dec. 3 to honor those killed and wounded in the Oxford High School shooting.

Careless adults take note: ‘Children will listen … children will see’

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted December 9, 2021 at 6:00am
Marc Morial of the National Urban League, center, speaks after a meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in July. Also pictured, from left, Melanie L. Campbell of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, Wade Henderson of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Why Marc Morial is ‘damn worried’ about the state of American democracy

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted November 22, 2021 at 6:00am
Native American groups have objected to Atlanta Braves fans performing a “tomahawk chop” at games, but that didn’t stop Donald and Melania Trump from joining the crowd last month, Curtis writes.

The demeaning of ‘woke’ — or when attention to injustice becomes too much

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted November 18, 2021 at 6:00am
Four prisoners pull a gurney during the Attica prison rebellion in September 1971. Filmmakers Stanley Nelson and Traci Curry assembled archival footage for their new documentary.

Attica prison rebellion was 50 years ago. This film makes it feel like yesterday

By Jason Dick
Posted November 17, 2021 at 12:36pm
President Joe Biden, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and lawmakers, signs the infrastructure bill on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday evening.

In implementing infrastructure law, Biden turns to two former mayors for help

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted November 16, 2021 at 5:45am