Check out our Black History Month special edition, celebrating the achievements of women in Black history, in this week’s print edition. Read it online or pick up a copy at one of these locations.
While segregation was still casting its ugly shadow over the U.S., the Homer G. Phillips Hospital was providing top-notch medical care to African Americans and training some of the world's best Black doctors and nurses.
Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved people of the state — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the Civil War.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months and urged states to do the same at the local level.
The conservative majority ruled unconstitutional a New York law requiring individuals to demonstrate a need to carry a gun before obtaining a license to carry in public.
The court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, which is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
Decision has no effect on Oregon’s Reproductive Health Equity Act that guarantees right to receive abortion, health care providers’ right to provide it