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New Mexico AG to Investigate Gallup-McKinley School District for Harsh Discipline of Native American Students

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

September 11, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM

by Peter Gosselin

September 11, 2020, 11:43 am EDT
Grace, Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Her Online Coursework, Is Released

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 31, 2020, 6:42 pm EDT

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114 stories published since 2014

Trump Administration Halted Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses of Prisoners and Mentally Ill People

by Corey G. Johnson

July 31, 2025, 5:00 am EDT
DOJ Abandons Effort to Address Phoenix’s Treatment of Homeless People

by Nicole Santa Cruz

May 23, 2025, 3:30 pm EDT
How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

by Jesse Coburn

May 15, 2025, 6:00 am EDT
Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases

by Asia Fields, Ashley Clarke, Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards

May 2, 2025, 5:05 am EDT
“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights

by J. David McSwane and Hannah Allam

April 8, 2025, 1:25 pm EDT
New Mexico AG to Investigate Gallup-McKinley School District for Harsh Discipline of Native American Students

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth

September 11, 2023, 6:00 am EDT
In Secret Recording, a Top City Library Official Calls Alaska Natives “Woke” and “Racists”

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News

April 21, 2023, 11:00 am EDT
Eugene Clemons May Be Ineligible for the Death Penalty. A Rigid Clinton-Era Law Could Force Him to Be Executed Anyway.

by Seth Freed Wessler

May 28, 2021, 11:00 am EDT
The Trump Administration’s Final Push to Make It Easier for Religious Employers to Discriminate

by Lydia DePillis

December 23, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Pistols, a Hearse and Trucks Playing Chicken: Why Some Voters Felt Harassed and Intimidated at the Polls

by Adriana Gallardo, Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy

December 4, 2020, 5:00 am EST
Electionland de ProPublica: El estado del Día de las Elecciones de 2020

por Caroline Chen, Jack Gillum, Derek Willis, Isaac Arnsdorf, Maryam Jameel, Jessica Huseman y Ryan McCarthy

November 3, 2020, 1:58 pm EST
ProPublica’s Electionland: The State of Election Day 2020

by Caroline Chen, Jack Gillum, Derek Willis, Isaac Arnsdorf, Maryam Jameel, Jessica Huseman and Ryan McCarthy

November 3, 2020, 9:28 am EST
Varias celebridades gastaron millones de dólares para que ex convictos de Florida pudieran votar. ¿Marcarán alguna diferencia?

por Lawrence Mower y Langston Taylor, Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times

November 2, 2020, 9:39 am EST
Celebrities Spent Millions So Florida Felons Could Vote. Will It Make a Difference?

by Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor, Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times

November 2, 2020, 6:00 am EST
Avísanos si tienes problemas con la votación este año

por Rachel Glickhouse

October 22, 2020, 2:36 pm EDT
La nueva ley de votación por correo de Pennsylvania amplía el acceso para todos…menos para los pobres

por Jonathan Lai, Samantha Melamed y Michaelle Bond, The Philadelphia Inquirer

October 22, 2020, 10:27 am EDT
Pennsylvania’s New Vote-by-Mail Law Expands Access for Everyone Except the Poor

by Jonathan Lai, Samantha Melamed and Michaelle Bond, The Philadelphia Inquirer

October 22, 2020, 5:30 am EDT
¿Por qué los votantes no blancos de Georgia tienen que hacer filas durante horas? Hay muchos más ahora, pero tienen menos lugares de votación.

por Stephen Fowler, Georgia Public Broadcasting

October 20, 2020, 5:49 pm EDT
Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have to Wait in Line for Hours? Their Numbers Have Soared, and Their Polling Places Have Dwindled.

by Stephen Fowler, Georgia Public Broadcasting

October 17, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Millions of Mail-In Votes Have Already Been Cast in Battleground States. Track Their Progress Here.

by ProPublica

October 15, 2020, 11:00 am EDT
Your Guide to Voting in Illinois

by ProPublica

October 8, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
In Florida, the Gutting of a Landmark Law Leaves Few Felons Likely to Vote

by Lawrence Mower and Langston Taylor, Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times

October 7, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM

by Peter Gosselin

September 11, 2020, 11:43 am EDT
What the Post Office Needs to Survive a Pandemic Election

by Jessica Huseman, Maryam Jameel and Ryan McCarthy

August 19, 2020, 12:32 pm EDT
Grace, Black Teen Jailed for Not Doing Her Online Coursework, Is Released

by Jodi S. Cohen

July 31, 2020, 6:42 pm EDT
Portland Protesters No Longer Being Banned From Attending Protests to Win Release From Jail

by Dara Lind

July 30, 2020, 4:20 pm EDT
We Tracked What Happens to Police After They Use Force on Protesters

by Zipporah Osei, Mollie Simon, Moiz Syed and Lucas Waldron

July 29, 2020, 10:00 am EDT
What Has Happened to Police Filmed Hurting Protesters? So Far, Very Little.

by Zipporah Osei and Mollie Simon

July 29, 2020, 10:00 am EDT
We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos. Here’s What We Found.

by Talia Buford, Lucas Waldron, Moiz Syed and Al Shaw

July 16, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
Slavery Existed in Illinois, but Schools Don’t Always Teach That History

by Logan Jaffe

June 19, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System

by Akilah Johnson

June 5, 2020, 2:49 pm EDT
The Black American Amputation Epidemic

by Lizzie Presser

May 19, 2020, 5:00 am EDT
Ignoring Trump and Right-Wing Think Tanks, Red States Expand Vote by Mail

by Jessica Huseman and Mike Spies

May 12, 2020, 6:00 am EDT
It’s Time for Sundown Towns to Become a More Visible Part of Illinois History. But How?

by Logan Jaffe

February 21, 2020, 5:00 am EST
What Readers Told Us About Our Story, “The Legend of A-N-N-A”

by Logan Jaffe

November 15, 2019, 5:00 am EST
The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark

by Logan Jaffe

November 7, 2019, 1:15 pm EST
U.S. Senate Greenlights Funding to Help Prevent Families From Losing Their Land

by Lizzie Presser

October 30, 2019, 2:00 pm EDT
Building a Database From Scratch: Behind the Scenes With Documenting Hate Partners

by Rachel Glickhouse

October 23, 2019, 12:00 pm EDT
When Transgender Travelers Walk Into Scanners, Invasive Searches Sometimes Wait on the Other Side

by Lucas Waldron and Brenda Medina

August 26, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Trump Called Baltimore “Vermin Infested” While the Federal Government Fails to Clean Up Rodents in Subsidized Housing

by Danielle Ohl, The Capital, and Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan

August 12, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Here’s Proof Ole Miss Knew Identities of Two Students Who Posed in Front of Shot-Up Emmett Till Sign, but Did Little

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

July 30, 2019, 12:40 pm EDT
We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting

July 25, 2019, 1:35 pm EDT
“I Now Have the Perspective of Both Sides”: 18 Voting Officials Take Civil Rights Tour

by Jessica Huseman

May 13, 2019, 5:27 pm EDT
California Tried to Fix Its Prisons. Now County Jails Are More Deadly.

by Jason Pohl, The Sacramento Bee, and Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica

April 24, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
TSA Agents Say They’re Not Discriminating Against Black Women, But Their Body Scanners Might Be

by Brenda Medina, ProPublica, and Thomas Frank, special to ProPublica

April 17, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
IBM Accused of Violating Federal Anti-Age Discrimination Law

by Peter Gosselin

March 27, 2019, 9:53 am EDT
5 Things You Need to Know About Hate Crimes in America

by Rachel Glickhouse

March 22, 2019, 5:00 am EDT
Appeals Court Rules Key Anti-Age Discrimination Protections Don’t Apply to Job Seekers, Only Employees

by Peter Gosselin

February 12, 2019, 3:11 pm EST
U.S. to Investigate Discrimination Against Native American Students on Montana Reservation

by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Erica L. Green, The New York Times

January 4, 2019, 5:00 am EST
“Documenting Hate: New American Nazis,” Coming Soon From ProPublica and Frontline

by ProPublica

November 12, 2018, 2:00 pm EST