Strengthening democracy is the key to all other reforms.

In the midst of a presidential campaign circus, parents and teachers try to put the focus on state lawmakers — and kids.

And truly, this is not about Donald Trump... it's about us.

Before stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York City, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad spoke out about a program he called an “enduring form of surveillance and racial control.”

How Tim Kaine may have won the debate after all.

If Democrats and the media had listened to the people whose lives Springsteen sings about, they might understand where their white working-class voters have gone.

Garza says even though this powerful movement is growing and evolving, the media still isn't doing enough to understand its members' diversity.

New recordings from the DMV show how the state is continuing to disenfranchise black voters.

Thirty percent of rural Americans have substandard housing — and it’s expensive. But these communities are finding ways to give low-income residents homes of their own.

It doesn't just document the story of a people; it allows it to continue.