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The trouble with Trump’s homelessness plan

Homeless rights activists hold up signs saying "Housing, Not Handcuffs" outside of the U.S. Supreme Court on April 22, 2024 in Washington, DC.

How Trump used the criminal system to massively expand immigration detention

Immigrant woman and children walk across a field as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) hosts a media tour at the South Texas Family Residential Center, August 2019.

As Republicans spar over IVF, some turn to obscure MAHA-backed alternative

Elizabeth Goldman, an in-vitro fertilization patient at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, holds up a photo of her daughter who was born via the procedure.

‘We opened a door nobody knew existed’: How displaced Black families won reparations in Portland

Elizabeth Fouther-Branch and Bobby Fouther stand in front of their great-aunt’s house in 1956 (left) and in a parking lot near where the house used to stand in 2020 (right).

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Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago

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Japanese American soldiers in World War II fought the Axis abroad and racial prejudice at home

Mass evacuation of Japanese Americans from Bainbridge Island, Seattle, Washington, 30th March 1942 boarding trains under wartime presidential Executive Order 9066.

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25 photos of what Paris looked like the last time it hosted the Olympics

Eiffel Tower painter waves for a photograph.

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7 moments of Asian American and Black American solidarity

Frederick Douglass portrait; excerpt from speech; Lim Lip Hong Family Portrait from Chinese Exclusion Act investigative file

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7 Asian Americans whose discoveries changed the world

An illustration showing five silhouetted figures in front of medical imagery.

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10 of the biggest real-life casino heists of all time

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Women on quarters: Who they are and why it matters

Althea Gibson kisses the cup she was awardedafter winning the French International Tennis Championships in Paris in 1956.

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19 Black historical figures you probably didn't learn about in class

Jane Bolin, the first Black American woman graduate of Yale Law School and the first Black American woman judge in the United States.

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16 women abolitionists you may not know about

Lydia Maria Child reads a book on a front porch.

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14 heroes of the Civil Rights Movement whose names you may not recognize

March on Washington with Fannie Lou Hamer, Daisy Bates, and A. Philip Randolph in foreground.