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The proposed rule, which targets the cigarettes that black smokers overwhelmingly prefer, will harm the community it is supposed to help.

As the self-declared ‘free-speech absolutist’ takes the reins, some activists and politicians fear for the platform’s future

Family of Patrick Lyoya demands justice after the 26-year-old was shot dead by a Michigan officer this month.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Gregory “Dee” Rankin plans to keep on fighting even when the only option left is the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Since the highly publicized deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, communities have grappled with how best to hold police officers who commit misconduct accountable and prevent them from engaging in future misconduct.

Petition drive funded by Betsy DeVos has united GOP donors and far-right "patriots" in a sweeping political attack

Joe Biden signs anti-lynching law named after Emmett Till, a Black teen who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955.

“[I]t undermines and stifles First Amendment privileges,” says a federal court, defining “cancel culture” as “the phenomenon of aggressively targeting individuals or groups, whose views aggressors deem unacceptable, in an effort to destroy them personally and/or professionally.”

BALTIMORE — It was a marijuana sale turned deadly drug robbery. The victim shot to death wasn’t even involved in the deal.