Reporting on civil rights enforcement, federal policy rollbacks and the court cases shaping voting, housing and equal protection in the United States.
Minorities’ share of AT&T management jobs nearly doubled in the five years after the 1973 consent decree — and the unions representing the company’s own workers sued to try to block the settlement in the first place. Part 7 of a 12-part series, covering 1973 to 1979.
0 new documented incidents of white-nationalist activity, mapped and linked to the reporting.
September 24, 2026 – Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has reintroduced the Youth Voting Rights Act of 2026, comprehensive legislation to enforce the Twenty-Sixth Amendment and expand youth access to voting.
The Associated Press faced criticism Wednesday for invoking America’s history of lynchings in coverage of a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree, even after a Black man was charged with her murder and authorities said they had not established a motive.
Sam Harris, a 56-year-old from Suffolk, will vote for the first time this November.
0 new documented incidents of white-nationalist activity, mapped and linked to the reporting.
The federal government filed its lawsuit against AT&T and its consent decree resolving that lawsuit on the same day — January 18, 1973 — because the settlement had already been negotiated before the case was ever formally filed. Part 6 of a 12-part series, covering 1970 to 1973.
Senate Democrats have run two closed-door tabletop exercises rehearsing responses to election-day disruption, and all 24 Democratic governors have issued a joint statement on Trump’s election claims. Here is what has actually been said, by whom, and what the law allows.