Society and Culture

Evanston, a Chicago suburb, plans to distribute $10 million over 10 years for past discrimination and the lingering effects of slavery.
A federal appeals court threw out the sentence against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after it was determined that not enough was done to ensure his trial's jury was unbiased.
In Atlanta, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and beyond, crowds gathered to demand justice for the victims of the Georgia spa shootings.
Jorge Salcedo pleaded guilty to pocketing $200,000 in bribes to help applicants get into the school as bogus athletic recruits.
The 25-year-old dropped his young daughter when the elephant seemed like it wanted to charge at them, said police.
Crabapple First Baptist Church says "it can no longer affirm" that 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long "is truly a regenerate believer in Jesus Christ.”
The jurors said they could no longer be impartial after hearing about Minneapolis' historic settlement with George Floyd's family.
For the past several weeks, Asian Americans have questioned how to deal with a recent wave of assaults — many on the elderly — that have coincided with the pandemic.
“If there’s anyone who’s racist, it’s a motherf**ker who killed six Asian women. Your murders speak louder than your words," said "The Daily Show" host.
The shootings appear to be at the “intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia,” said Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen.