When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana this week, officials called its continued ...

Donald Trump’s ousted National Security Adviser Mike Waltz faces fresh Signal controversy after being spotted using the ...

The government under President Donald Trump is bending the arc of US history in a new direction, away from the civil rights ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. There’s a yellow brick wall covered with hundreds of names tucked inside the ...

Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with ...

White and Black children mix freely on the playground outside a school in a racially mixed neighborhood, Oct. 18, 1957, in ...

A $26 million federal program to help residents of Lowndes County, Alabama, who have dealt with inadequate sewage systems for ...

The Department of Justice once supported a trans inmate who accused the prison of discrimination and rape. The department ...