In his ruling, United States District Judge Carlton W. Reeves began with four telling words: “Here we go again.” 

The state already has just one clinic to perform the medical procedure.

She did little to conceal her racism while running against her Black opponent, former Representative Mike Espy.

In his decision, Judge Reeves said state lawmakers’ claims to be interested in women’s health was “pure gaslighting.”

The Center for Reproductive Rights immediately filed a lawsuit challenging the 15-week abortion ban, calling it “unconstitutional.”

Advocates fear this is the latest in a trend of women of color being criminalized for their pregnancy outcomes.

Students with the St. Louis-based Cultural Leadership organization offered their own fix for the vandalized sign.

It’s hitting an area with a high concentration of Black people.

The son of late mayor Chokwe Lumumba ran on a progressive platform that demanded law enforcement and education reform.

If the activist and lawyer wins the general election in November, he will follow the footsteps of his father, who died less than eight months into his term as mayor of the Mississippi city.

Host Darnell L. Moore traverses Mississippi to investigate how digital culture’s advances leave many impoverished rural residents behind.

“The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” correspondent sat down with trans activists and a transphobic Colorado lawmaker to examine the rationale behind anti-trans laws.

Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre: “He’s a strong supporter of keeping that flag flying. … This is his way of bringing attention to that.”

This Bay Area-bred poet’s experimental form and progressive ideology harkens back to the golden age of spoken-word and experimental works, but with renewed relevance.

Henry, like Sandra Bland, was an activist who died in police custody after being arrested for a traffic violation. 

Some of Tuesday’s big stories