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The Rio Grande is seen from the International Bridge near a section of the U.S.-Mexico border where a father and daughter drowned attempting to cross into the United States in 2019, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Oscar Alberto Martinez and his 23-month-old daughter, Angie Valeria, had migrated from El Salvador and planned to seek political asylum in the U.S. when they died.

Poetry inspired by a viral photo of drowned migrants wins the National Book Award

Photos of a father and his young daughter, drowned in the Rio Grande, underlined the deadly risks of the immigration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Martín Espada drew on them for his book Floaters.

his photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections on Feb. 5, 2018, shows Julius Jones. The fate of Jones rests with Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt.

Okla. governor grants clemency to Julius Jones hours before he was set to be executed

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt commuted the death sentence of Julius Jones after a public outcry. Jones, who maintains he was wrongly convicted of a 1999 murder, now faces life in prison without parole.

Unless Oklahoma's governor intervenes, Julius Jones will be executed Thursday

Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Julius Jones, who has been on death row for nearly 20 years in connection with a 1999 murder. Many believe he was wrongly convicted.

Cornell University Professor Saule Omarova testifying on fintech at a hearing organized by the Senate Banking committee on Sept. 18, 2018. Today, Omarova is President Biden's nominee to head the agency that oversees the majority of the assets held by the country's banks, and she will appear in front of the same Senate committee for her confirmation hearing on Thursday.

A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks

An ugly battle is being waged over Saule Omarova, President Biden's nominee to oversee most of the money held by banks. Her confirmation hearing is on Thursday.

Sen. Brown removed from Bond Bill Committee following verbal altercation

State Sen. Darius Brown is replaced on another committee after a verbal altercation with a fellow lawmaker last week.

A leadership change is coming to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Sherrilyn Ifill is stepping down and Janai Nelson will be the next director. The change is coming at a time when restrictions on voting rights and racial tensions are on the rise in the country.

Council member Inga Selders stands at her childhood home, where she lives in Prairie Village, Kan. Selders stumbled upon a racially restrictive housing covenant in her homeowners association property records. She's working to remove it<strong> </strong>but has faced pushback from other council members, as they think amendments to these covenants suffice and removing them would be removing history.

Racial covenants, a relic of the past, are still on the books across the country

Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove.

Adoptees say it's been hard to express their feelings about race during social unrest

In recent years, conversations around race and social justice have come to the fore. Trans-racial and trans-national adoptees share how it can be hard to express their thoughts about these issues.

Thousands of borrowers' student debt is erased with loan forgiveness program overhaul

A month after the U.S. Department of Education announced it would overhaul the troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, thousands have begun to see their student loan balances disappear.

After declining most of the fall, COVID-19 cases are rising again in many parts of the U.S.

U.S. COVID cases start to rise again as the holidays approach

After declining most of the fall, new infections are up again in more than half of U.S. states, worrying experts about what the holiday season may bring.

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