Many prisons charge for menstrual products. And access is limited even in facilities where pads and tampons are free.
The Trump administration removed women fleeing domestic violence from a qualifying category in 2018. That decision has been reversed, but the move may not be permanent.
At The 19th, we plan to continue our coverage of Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday and how this monumental moment has impacted Black people. And we can’t do that without hearing directly from our readers in the Black community.
Amster was the only researcher on The New York Times Pentagon Papers project. But when the report ran, the editors left her name off.
The country's first new federal holiday since 1983 is the fruit of a decades-long push to acknowledge the importance of emancipation.
Jackson was named by President Joe Biden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a position regarded as a stepping stone to some of the highest legal positions in the government.
In a country that typically separates incarcerated people from their newborns, the eight states with prison nurseries seemed groundbreaking. Minnesota introduced an entirely new solution.