The 1968 report's stark conclusion was that "our nation is moving towards two societies: one white, one black -- separate and unequal."

If history is any guide, the protests against police brutality are just getting started.

In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "What clearly cannot be said is that violence—like nonviolence—sometimes works."

In the US, there are 578,424 homeless people, a third of whom have no shelter at all.

The details of President Barack Obama’s much-rumored, much-debated executive action on immigration have been leaked to the press.

We've received close to 7,000 comments on Facebook reacting to Tuesday's midterm elections.

Since Republican legislatures implemented new voting restrictions after 2010 and SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, it’s become easier to buy an election and harder to vote in one.

A quick look at the numbers shows that in several key races the margin of victory came very close to the likely margin of disenfranchisement.

The social network tries to promote voting, but it also has conducted tests that affect users' voting behavior — without telling them.