Social Justice

The event on the National Mall kicks off the next phase of the new Poor People’s Campaign to continue – and build upon – the original campaign started by MLK

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn, talks with journalists Max Marin and Ryan Briggs about how sexual harassment in city government has gone unreported and unrecorded.

Research shows that 1 in 4 students juggle the writing, the studying, the researching and applying to college completely on their own.

After staging demonstrations for weeks, the Pennsylvania chapter of the national Poor People's Campaign has ended its extended residency in the state Capitol rotunda.

Amid the criticism, the president dug in Monday , again falsely blaming Democrats for the crisis. His administration put the practice in place and could easily end it.

Inside an old warehouse in South Texas, hundreds of immigrant children wait in a series of cages created by metal fencing.

A nationwide tour will make 50-plus stops in more than 20 states, including Iowa, Texas, South Carolina and Connecticut.

The Mule Train left the Mississippi Delta, for Washington, D.C. It was part of Martin Luther King Jr.'s last major effort to mobilize impoverished Americans.

As the years pass, I sense more acutely the importance of working to make a difference.

"It's rough," Trump allowed after being asked about North Korea's human rights record. He then said: "It's rough in a lot of places, by the way. Not just there."

After failing to defeat poverty, drugs and terrorism, America has decided to fight an enemy we can plainly see — black guys who can punt, pass kick, or dribble.

Annual demonstration brings hundreds of young people to Philadelphia Museum of Art steps to call for changes in gun laws.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is imposing sharp new limits on who can get asylum in the United States

They're calling for officer who fired fatal shot to be criminally charged. The city's district attorney's office is investigating.

Adrian Fields doesn’t like to go out.