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In South Carolina, the state Medicaid agency estimates only 1,300 beneficiaries will meet the stringent prerequisites for GLP ...
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants.
“The Department of Education is on fire,” added Johnson, who moved from Atlanta to Maryland’s majority-Black Prince George’s ...
As lawmakers push for sweeping cuts to Medicaid, fear weighs heavily on Tori Cooper. Cooper, a trans woman who serves as the director of strategic outreach and training for the Human Rights Campaign, ...
Rick White drinks water while cooling down in his tent in a homeless encampment in Phoenix in 2023. A confluence of forces — including record heat, a hyperactive hurricane season, and decrepit ...
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Kyren Lacy, seen in College Station, Texas, prior to an October 2024 game between the LSU Tigers and Texas A&M Aggies, died at 24 by suicide in April. (Ella Hall/LSU/University Images via Getty Images ...
Forty-seven percent of Atlanta residents are Black, but the city commonly referred to as the Black Mecca had a homeless population in January that was 80% Black, according to the latest Point-In-Time ...
Read them in our free weekly newsletter. Sign up Underneath oak trees and Spanish moss from Texas to the Carolina coasts, the remains of Black Americans lay in unmarked graves across roadside ...
Larry Hoover, founder of a notorious Chicago street gang who has spent the past three decades in solitary confinement in federal prison, was granted clemency by President Donald Trump on Wednesday — ...