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Imperial County’s farmworkers have long struggled with insufficient housing options, low wages and barriers to health care. Our partners at inewsource report that COVID-19 worsened those conditions and caused major outbreaks in the industry.

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

Government health officials are recommending a "pause" in vaccinations with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. We're answering your questions as we learn more.

Republican lawmakers in many states have proposed measures that would make their states' voting rules more restrictive. Of note are Arizona, Texas, Florida and Michigan.

Do transgender women and girls have a constitutional right to play on women's sports teams? That question will be argued before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday.

Hoping to build on the party's success in 2018, the campaign committees will take aim at federal challengers who want to repeal Obamacare and state candidates who resist Medicare expansion.

The scholarship program, sponsored by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, intends to support the next generation of civil rights advocates working in the South.

The Federal Reserve has moved quickly and creatively to pump money into the rapidly shrinking U.S. economy in hopes of keeping it afloat long enough to outlast the coronavirus pandemic.

To close the vaccination gap among Latinos in Colorado, health workers are bringing the shot to neighborhoods and soccer games, and drawing on trusted networks of friends and family.

After the White House downplayed the coronavirus threat in the past month, the number of Republicans saying it has been blown out of proportion jumped, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.