An earlier Stateline story reported that policy, poverty, rural isolation and bad habits are shortening lives in West Virginia compared with New York. Even though the states had very similar life ...

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed executive orders to promote parental choice in school selection and end federal funding for curricula that he called the "indoctrination" of students in ...

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

Or, if you’re really committed to paying less in taxes, you could move. In nine states, income isn’t taxed — allowing residents to hold onto more of their hard-earned dollars. For retirees, this means ...

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) ...

President Donald Trump started his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient the U.S. government.

Some of Trump's executive orders have an immediate policy impact. Others are more symbolic. Some already are being challenged ...

Designate an “invasion across the southern border of the United States ... on racial and ethnic equity and LGBTQ rights. They ...

Repeal several Biden-era directives on racial and ethnic equity and LGBTQ rights. They included orders intending to ensure ...

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White ...