Thu, Feb 25 2021

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. — In midsummer of 2018, Oumou Kanoute, a Black student at Smith College, recounted a distressing American tale: She was eating lunch in a dorm lounge when a janitor and a campus police officer walked over and asked her…

Lansing — The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services would not be allowed to use race, gender or 'socioeconomic factors' in deciding how to distribute COVID-19 vaccines under a proposal approved Wednesday by a state Senate…

The Washington Post – Annie Linskey – Feb 24, 5:39 PM

Controversy has centered on endangered nominee Neera Tanden, who would be the first Indian American to lead the Office of Management and Budget, typically a low-profile post. Her detractors, including Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III of West…

Flags are flying at half-staff across the United States to commemorate the half-million American lives lost to the coronavirus. But there's another tragedy we haven't adequately confronted: Millions of American schoolchildren will soon have missed…

(CNN) A close ally of Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took part in the January 6 mob at the Capitol and said he was among those who eventually made their way into the building. Greene, a freshman congresswoman with a history of…