Amber Hall

Morgan Jerkins discusses her book of essays, "This Will Be My Undoing," which takes on a central question: What does it mean to “be” — to live as, to exist as — a black woman today?

Kicking off a month-long series from The Takeaway, writer Ijeoma Oluo discusses her new book, "So You Want To Talk About Race." 

Back in 1968, more than 1,000 sanitation workers striked after two of their colleagues were crushed to death. The movement brought Martin Luther King to the city. 

On Tuesday, President Trump delivered his first State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress. Though he made a bipartisan pitch, he also played to his conservative base.

The latest edition of Case in Point from The Marshall Project tells the story of Renard Marcel Daniel. 

"Red Clocks," a new novel by Leni Zumas, imagines life in the United States if abortion was once again illegal. 

Monday marks 45 years since the Supreme Court issued its landmark Roe V. Wade ruling. Though it's still the law of the land, Roe has been significantly rolled back in recent years.

We look to Chile, El Salvador, and Oklahoma, to find out what happens when restrictive abortion laws are put into practice. 

In Hennepin County, Minnesota, local officials are responding to an increase in immigration arrests by spending tens of thousands of dollars on legal defense.

What might a mass mobilization effort in support of the poor look like in 2018? The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. provided a blueprint 50 years ago that still inspires today.

Millions of documents were shredded in 1990 by the Stasi, the state security service of East Germany, who spied on its citizens for more than 40 years.

Workers across the country rang in the New Year with a pay bump after 18 states raised the minimum wage on Monday.

Spontaneous protests broke out on the streets of Iran late last week, and have now spread all over the country.

A group of advocates in Washington State wants residents to call a hotline to protect immigrants at risk of deportation, and in turn go beyond the label of a ‘sanctuary’ city or state.

It's been five years since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. We look back and explore how that day became burned into our consciousness, and we remember the 26 victims. 

The sordid story of how a revered politician delivered universal healthcare to Canada in 1962, while the charismatic, politically savvy President Kennedy failed in the U.S. 

While some of President Trump's executive agencies have been plagued by listless management, the Department of the Interior employs veteran bureaucrats to reshape domestic policy.

Half of all Americans are insured through their workplace. But millions don't seek new opportunities because they're afraid to go without benefits.