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Police officers stand guard outside the 4th District Police Station during the second night of protest against the death of Karon Hylton on Oct. 28 in Washington, D.C.

Policing Reform, Civilian Oversight And More: After Months Of Protest, Voters Decide

Months of protests over police brutality has brought some change, but major reform has so far eluded many communities.

Cheryl Porter shows pictures she has printed from cell phone images of her incarcerated son, who was injured in a riot at Parchman prison. "It was a bloodbath," she says.

After Inmate Deaths, Mississippi Faces Pressure To Reform Its Prisons

The state of Mississippi is the subject of lawsuits and a federal investigation following the deaths of more than 30 inmates in its prison system since late last year.

President Trump leaves the White House briefing room on Nov. 5 after making false charges that Democrats were rigging the presidential election.

Trump Tried To Make This Election 2016 Again. It Didn't Go As Planned

President Trump slumped in polls and fundraising — and lost 10 days when he caught the coronavirus. He threw everything into reaching for a come-from-behind win, but Democrat Joe Biden beat him.

Members of the Black Equity Coalition, a grassroots team of researchers and advocates, meet regularly to discuss how they can use data to uncover life-threatening disparities between white and Black Pittsburgh. (Top left to right) Kellie Ware, Karen Abrams, Tiffany Gary-Webb, Mark Lewis and Fred Brown.

Data analysts proved what Black Pittsburgh knew about COVID's racial disparities

Community leaders saw early in the pandemic that the city's residents of color were being hit hard by COVID-19. They worked with data analysts to show just how hard, where and why.

MJG (left) and Eightball in an early, undated photo.

Eightball, MJG And Rap From Memphis 20 Years On

From the birthplace of Stax and Sun Records, and the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, the pair of rapper-producers snatched soul music and put it to work for a new generation.

News brief: high court retirement, Russia-Ukraine crisis, economic growth data

Justice Stephen Breyer will retire, giving Biden a Supreme Court pick. How is Russia responding to diplomatic moves to lower tensions with Ukraine? The U.S. reports latest economic growth figures.

Superintendent Dr. Errick Greene on the first day of school in Jackson, Miss. His first stop: North Jackson Elementary School.

As a new year starts, schools prepare for fewer masks, more learning and joy

Schools are opening up around the country, and the third year in the shadow of a pandemic brings new challenges but also new hope.

News brief: Primary election are winding down, Imran Khan, Russia car bomb

Have the primaries given hints about the upcoming midterms? Terrorism charges are filed against Pakistan's ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan. A car bomb near Moscow killed the daughter of a key Putin ally.

National Institutes Of Health Chief Gives Update On The Coronavirus In The U.S.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dr. Francis Collins, the National Institutes of Health director, about the surge in coronavirus cases, the reopening of schools this fall and the race for a vaccine.

Lucille Brooks, a retiree who lives in Pittsford, New York, was sued in 2020 for nearly $8,000 by a nursing home that had taken care of her brother. The nursing home dropped the case after she showed she had no control over his money or authority to make decisions for him.

Nursing homes are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills

Debt lawsuits — a byproduct of America's medical debt crisis — can ensnare not only patients but also those who help sick and older people be admitted to nursing homes, a KHN-NPR investigation finds.

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