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Jorge Gutierrez, founder of Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, pens an op-ed calling for the protection of LGBTQ+ immigrants in response to the Supreme Court's decision to uphold DACA.

June 19, or Juneteenth, is a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, but Black people are still fighting for true freedom 150 years later.

Calls to defund the police have risen in recent weeks, after the high-profile killings of Black women and men like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. How we talk about what that means and doesn't mean is important.

MTV's Prom-athon, in partnership with Michelle Obama's When We All Vote and the 2020 Prom Challenge, will throw a virtual prom celebration for students who didn't get to have one. It all goes down May 22.

Senator Cory Booker explains how the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated longstanding racial inequities and how to put an end to racially biased policing.

Seven students sound off on prom and graduation going digital due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sophia Kianni — an environmental activist with Fridays for Future, Extinction Rebellion, and This Is Zero Hour — on enacting climate justice beyond Earth Day.

Around the country, medical centers have implemented restrictions and social distancing measures to protect both patients and doctors, as well as to not further overwhelm drastically overextended medical resources. But many people are now learning ho...

Much of the responsibility to slow the spread of the coronavirus falls upon individual action, and the collective efforts of people working to keep themselves and those around them healthy. Whether you can work or study from home, or if your bosses a...

While each lawsuit differs in specificity and claims — with asks ranging from prorated refunds for housing to refunds on tuition and on-campuses services — all of the suits claim that students paid for far more than they received due to the sprea...

President Donald Trump seemingly wondered aloud if it was possible to cure COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, by "cleaning" the human body the way you might clean a kitchen countertop. For the record, that is not possible.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation and Pretrial Justice Institute and Empact Solutions recently surveyed juvenile justice agencies in 30 states; they found the number of young people in local secure detention centers fell by 24 percent in March 2020 — a...

Many doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus battle are lobbying the federal government to take more meaningful action than simply calling them "heroes": They want their student loan debts forgiven.

Louisiana's coastal towns are disappearing. Smithsonian's 'Last Call for the Bayou' introduces Kasha Clay, an environmental activist keeping the area alive.

The Department of Education released new guidelines for funding eligibility on Tuesday (April 21) that restrict emergency funding as provided by the CARES Act — now, undocumented students cannot qualify for coronavirus relief.