Residents of St. James Parish, Louisiana, are fighting to keep a toxic plastic chemicals factory from being built on the site of ancestral burial grounds.
As Super Tuesday approaches, a decade-long decline in voter turnout in Texas' Harris and Fort Bend counties raises concerns about the public’s faith in the electoral process.
The California Legislative Black Caucus introduced a package of reparations legislation this week that the lawmakers call “a starting point” to atone for the state's legacy of discrimination.
