Over the past few weeks, a handful of extremist members of the Wisconsin State Legislature have been finding new ways to undermine Wisconsin’s democracy by threatening...
LINCOLN — State Sen. Rob Clements renewed his attempt to repeal the state’s inheritance tax on Thursday, arguing that it was “antiquated, regressive and arbitrary.” Clements,...
Union officials have made an effective case that more money won’t improve Nevada’s failing education system. Don’t expect them to realize that outcome, though. On Monday,...
Sharonne Navas is the co-founder and executive director of the Equity in Education Coalition in Washington state. Navas is the first American born child of immigrant...
PHOENIX (AP) — For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his...
Next week the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls will open a summer-long exhibition of the work of the nationally celebrated Montana artist...
State Democrats, fueled by the biggest protest movement of a generation, have toppled dozens of Confederate symbols in the past year across this former rebel stronghold....
FORT LAWN, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina state Sen. Mike Fanning likes to talk to people. He will talk about anything, but if the Democrat from...
More than 400 people attended a rally in support of black community members and black people nationwide on June 6, 2020, the 11th day of protests...
Sometimes publisher Kimberly Griffin and I are asked how the Mississippi Free Press is different from other “local” or “statewide” media, and my first thought is...
There has been a dramatic spike in parent-led challenges to school library books in Missouri and across the U.S. in the past two years.The debate over...
SINGAPORE (AP) — After a U.S. senator grilled the Singaporean CEO of TikTok about his nationality and suggested he was affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party,...
Andre, self-described as “awesome” is a lovely young man of African American descent. He is very empathetic and loves animals. Andre plays basketball, makes music (especially...
Listen to this article A group of Maryland correctional officers has filed a sweeping discrimination lawsuit alleging that a “gang” of white guards known as “40...
Bangor could soon become the latest U.S. community to remove a monument celebrating a white man whose historical oppression of dark-skinned people has not received the...
Growing up, I was taught not to brag. But with apologies to my parents, I can’t help myself: FLORIDA TODAY won multiple journalism awards this year.The...
After visiting the Varner-Hogg plantation an hour south of Houston, historical book publisher Michelle Haas seemed incensed by what she had seen. At an exhibit that...
On a recent Saturday afternoon, Huck Finn and Jim were once again paddling along the “Muddy Water,” singing out their hopes of finding freedom somewhere along...
Driving south across the Brent Spence Bridge on June 28, I could barely see the hills of Northern Kentucky, obscured by a white haze. Later that...
