Social Issues

MLK tackled many issues in his lifetime. Where are we now?
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for many issues throughout his life, speaking out against various barriers holding back blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans.
2020 census will ask about same-sex relationships
The new response categories for the relationship question come after Census Bureau researchers found that using the terms "same-sex" and "opposite-sex" on the census form could improve the federal government's estimates of how many same-sex couples are living in the U.S.
Yousafzai visits her Pakistan hometown
Yousafzai and her family arrived in a helicopter provided by the Pakistani military, which took her to the town of Mingora in the Swat Valley from Islamabad. She had arrived in the capital before dawn on Thursday flanked by heavy security and plans to return to Britain on Monday.
The forgotten struggle for civil rights in the northern U.S.
As we come to the end of Women's History Month, this hour you'll hear about a Minnesota woman who was a longtime activist for civil rights, but has been mostly forgotten.
An attorney for one of two Arizona woman charged with burglarizing a mosque as they spewed derogatory comments about Muslims said Thursday that his client's case isn't about hate speech but rather about her exercise of free speech rights.
Minnesota will join with other states in a lawsuit to block the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire.
Fentanyl-laced cocaine becoming a deadly problem among drug users
The powerful opioid fentanyl is showing up in batches of cocaine, threatening a new wave of opioid overdoses. Some doctors, drug users and law enforcement wonder if the contamination is deliberate.