Work deemed "essential" during the pandemic has largely been faced by people of color. So how will their experiences of 2020 affect their votes? Tamaira Johnson, a registered nurse, saw the rise in anxiety...

While first-time voters are often considered young, there are many elements — from citizenship to a new engagement with politics — spurring Black voters to the polls for the first time this year. James...

She wanted her fourth grade class to understand systemic racism. Parents said she was indoctrinating their children and wanted her fired. In late August, during the second week of school in Burlington,...

"We have lived under economic terrorism for decades," said Georgia farmer Eddie Slaughter. Subsidies issued during Covid-19 are just another form of exclusion, he and other farmers say. The federal government...

Covid-19 exacerbated longstanding racial inequalities in the job market that experts say will take dramatic policy overhauls to fix. As Covid-19 began to prompt states to lock down and issue sweeping orders,...

"If we don't go out there and he wins, can you imagine how this community is going to live after Election Day?" said one volunteer in Wisconsin. SAN ANTONIO — Military veteran Miguel Martinez went car...

Lupe Guillén, Vanessa’s younger sister, told Gloria Estefan that she keeps wondering why this happened to her sister. Estefan told her Vanessa "is going to change something — she already has.” Slain Fort...

About half of workers who lost their jobs were not contacted by employers, and three-quarters didn't receive compensation. Rufina Rodríguez used to clean about a dozen houses every week before the coronavirus...

"This is part of an ongoing campaign with far-right groups associated with the Catholic Church," one expert said. In the final days before the election, Spanish-language misinformation about Joe Biden's...

How generational differences help explain Asian American voting trends. Four years ago, Louie Tan Vital received an invitation from her 81-year old grandmother, an immigrant, to join a prayer rally for...

Her nonprofit has increased distance-learning reading time for kids in need by 20 percent. Kristi Yamaguchi has been busy during the pandemic. The Olympic-figure-skater-turned-philanthropist has been to...