U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate granted a preliminary injunction in the case on Monday, which prevents the law from being enforced until there’s a final ruling.

On this day in 1865, all those enslaved in Texas learned, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, that they were free.

So how is it that the states with the most Christians continue to be among the least Christian when it comes to caring for those who are most in need?

GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.

Donna Ladd reflects on the times she discovered the hidden racist pasts of institutions and towns that did all they could to downplay that history.