Social Issues

After mass shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19. The number was once unthinkable. Now it's a pedestrian reality in the United States.

City leaders want Rochester to be a magnet for a diverse workforce, expanding around Mayo Clinic. Part of that journey means reckoning with the city’s history of intentional housing segregation. A recent push to map racial housing covenants shows how some are connected to Rochester’s most important institution.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland about her department's Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report.

MPR News Host Angela Davis talks with two evangelical church leaders about how churches are responding to calls for racial equity. 

An effort to ban “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ youth has won a majority in the Republican-controlled Minnesota Senate. But it didn't get enough votes on a procedural maneuver to advance.

A report from the human rights organization Amnesty International, says the U.S. has made little progress in reducing the disproportionate rate of violence against American Indian and Alaska Native women.

The FBI has opened a federal hate crime investigation into last week’s shooting at a hair salon in Dallas’ Koreatown area that injured three people.

The theory began in white supremacist circles and has slowly integrated into the mainstream of Republican politics.

Members of the Hmong community are coming together with a common goal: to educate and advocate for LGBTQ acceptance within the Hmong culture. Dr. Brian V. Xiong joined host Chris Farrell to talk more.

10 people are dead after an 18-year-old white man allegedly carried out an attack at a supermarket in a majority Black district.