Social Justice

“The peaceful protests earlier were touching showings of our collective grief,” Mayor Kenney said. “But the anger displayed now and this afternoon cannot continue.”

As the night dragged on, fires erupted across the city's south side, including at a Japanese restaurant, a Wells Fargo bank and an Office Depot.

Protesters torched a Minneapolis police station that the department abandoned as three days of violent protests spread to nearby St. Paul and across the country.

Nine sex abuse lawsuits were filed Tuesday in New York against three Boy Scout local councils

Behind bars, Thomas ‘Reem’ Cotton earned two degrees, became a self-taught legal scholar and kept close relationships. He died about a year after his release.

People who are disabled or have chronic illnesses have a different perspective on the limits we’re all living with today.

Grants are available to groups organizing around the pandemic and to those struggling to operate in a changed environment or generate lost revenue.

Penn State University will be required to make major changes to how it deals with sexual assault complaints

Three years after a state appellate court overturned his conviction, Msgr. Lynn is scheduled to face a new jury, but the same charges of covering up clergy sex abuse.

The Giving Project brings together people to collectively raise money and then give it away. This week, the group decided how to disseminate $150,000.

A private collection of historic racist ephemera offers lessons on how we see ‘others’.

In the last several years, two White House administrations have used this power in diametrically opposite ways.

‘Your life has worth. Go after the things you want,’ Stockton University Prof. Emily Van Duyne tweeted on learning she’d won the prestigious fellowship.

The group argues the strong economy makes it a good time to reinstate the cash assistance program. But the GOP-controlled legislature is wary of increased spending.

When some fast-food workers in New York went on strike in 2012, they had no idea it was the beginning of an unlikely movement that would propel an economic revolution.