Researchers uncovered stark disparities between white people and minorities across thousands of categories of pollution, including trucks, industry, agriculture and even restaurants.

The woman had provided her DNA to police after being sexually assaulted in 2016, her lawyer said. About five years later, officers used it to charge her with retail theft.

The players say doctors use two scales — one for Black athletes, one for white — to determine eligibility for dementia claims.

After the fall of Roe v. Wade, some travel hundreds of miles to get abortions. This is the story of a girl who couldn't

An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical chan...

Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they...

Michigan State law professor Justin Simard says 18% of all published American cases are within two steps of a slave case. His team has spent years documenting them, hoping to force a legal reckoning.

UNC study adds to growing evidence that access to supports such as food benefits helps parents create a safe environment for their children.

Dorothy Roberts argues that any attempt to substitute police with family service workers is a shift from one racist institution to another

The nation’s jails can be dangerous, or even deadly, for sick inmates like Lamekia Dockery. Often, no one is held accountable.

Researchers in Canada found homeless people who received a cash transfer spent it on housing and transportation over “temptation goods” like alcohol or drugs.

16-year-old was killed during an argument outside a care home in the Ohio capital in April 2021

Research found 85 percent more deaths among those of prime working age in places where car factories closed compared with where they stayed open.

The state seeks to punish parents for affirming their children’s gender identities.

The city’s child welfare agency is not supposed to remove children solely because of a parent’s marijuana use. A mother says the agency did so anyway, and now she is suing.

Celeste Burgess, 19, and her mother, Jessica Burgess, 42, were charged last year after the police obtained their private Facebook messages.

When asked about rebuilding trust with the public, Police Commissioner Outlaw likened the incident to taking “50 steps back.”

Rodney and Temecia Jackson say their pediatrician reported them to Dallas CPS when their baby developed jaundice, and Rodney was arrested for not giving her up.

Letter signed by 178 members of US’s most prestigious law faculties calls Israeli reaction to Hamas attack ‘a moral catastrophe’

"It’s a really critical acknowledgement by the medical community that we got it wrong," said Michelle Morse, chief medical officer of the New York City health department.

Many more pregnant women are abusing opioids, a new report suggests, putting a strain on hospital neonatal units.

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997.