Social Issues

Lowery got his start as an activist organizing bus boycotts in 1950s Alabama. He led the Southern Christian Leadership Conference for two decades and prayed at Barack Obama's first inauguration.

For workers already living paycheck to paycheck, the COVID-19 crisis means many of them are now unemployed or working fewer hours.

Asian Minnesotans say they’re facing increased hostility amid the COVID-19 crisis. Incidents range from name-calling to other forms of discrimination that appear to blame Asian Americans for the spread of the disease.

In 1973, five black students and five white students were told to go around the room and say what they really thought about people of the other race. It bonded them in ways they never expected.

The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Colombia gave the 2020 Eugene McCarthy Lecture at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict.

Advocates for a proposed Equal Rights Amendment, or ERA, to the state constitution hope to bring the question before voters on the November ballot.

Minneapolis city officials say they want to extend a pilot program that provides free storage for belongings.

Many assume low-wage workers are teenagers, but data show that most are adults in their prime working years, and many support families on those wages. In recent years, economists say it’s also become increasingly challenging for low-wage workers to change careers or move up the ladder.

Prisons often give disproportionately harsher punishments for minor offenses to women than to men, according to a new federal report that backs up the findings of an earlier NPR investigation.

APM Reports documentary, “Shackled Legacy: Universities and the Slave Trade.” History shows slavery helped build many U.S. colleges and universities.