We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP

Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.

American taxpayers are spending billions every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

Sisters Theresa Alethia and Danielle Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Their order plans to help victims of abuse.

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is about more than wage gaps. Job losses and stalled pay for Black women are an early warning sign for every American worker.

He may have found Trump distasteful, but no one did more to protect him.

Some members of the Cuban and Jewish diasporas have used their painful histories to gain power in U.S. politics and advance imperialism. But many are pushing back

With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.

Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

Studies show income, debt and access to basic needs shape mental health outcomes, but U.S. strategies have largely focused on clinical care.

The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

The Iran war has exposed the fragility of the global energy system as countries remain dependent on fossil fuels. Could renewables like wind, solar, hydropower and photovoltaic shield people from the ...

A group of Apache women filed an emergency request at the Supreme Court to prevent a sacred religious site from being swallowed by a massive copper mine.

None of the 20 companies provided median pay that allowed workers to afford a two-bedroom rental.

Ghana's President John Mahama has received the African Union's backing in pushing the United Nations to recognize transatlantic slavery as the 'gravest crime against humanity.' But will the motion pas...

From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant - putting Black users at risk

The Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration (FSPA), based in La Crosse, have transferred their Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center property on Trout Lake back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of

In the two months before Trump’s decision, criminal charges were announced against only three people. On nights when physical conflict did erupt, it often came from police firing on, shoving, pepper-s...

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Federal agencies are starting to admit that DOGE’s policies were trash.

The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.

Explore the speech "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" delivered by Frederick Douglass in 1852, including full text and historical context.

Chicago is poised to close the first half of the year with its steepest statistical drop in recent memory, with fewer than 200 homicides in the first six months of a calendar year for the first tim…

The average cost of child care for a baby exceeds in-state college tuition in 41 states. For families with two kids in child care, it’s more than a mortgage or rent in most states.

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Democrats recently ousted David Hogg from leadership after he criticized the party for complacency.

The hottest place to be this summer is at a lecture.

'Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights,' NAACP President Derrick Johnson said at a press conference on Monday.