• Trump lashes out at travel ban ruling by 'so-called judge'

    Trump lashes out at travel ban ruling by 'so-called judge'

    Feb 04, 2017 03:53 PM EDT

    ... and the global suspension of the U.S. refugee program significantly harms residents and effectively mandates discrimination. After the ruling, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said people from the affected countries can now apply for entry to the U.S. "Judge Robart's decision, effective immediately ... puts a halt ...

  • U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump's travel ban nationwide

    U.S. judge temporarily blocks Trump's travel ban nationwide

    Feb 04, 2017 04:08 AM EDT

    ... temporarily bans travel for people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya and Yemen and suspends the U.S. refugee program. State Attorney General Bob Ferguson said the travel ban significantly harms residents and effectively mandates discrimination. Minnesota joined the lawsuit two days later. After the ruling, Ferguson said people ...

  • Number of police officers shot, killed on the job rose sharply in 2016

    Number of police officers shot, killed on the job rose sharply in 2016

    Dec 30, 2016 02:26 PM EDT

    Ambushes in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and other shootings around the country led to a sharp increase in the number of police killed in the line of duty this year. From Jan. 1 through Wednesday, 135 officers lost their lives. Some died in traffic accidents, but nearly half were ...

  • Can diverse police departments ease community tension?

    Can diverse police departments ease community tension?

    Aug 22, 2016 01:04 PM EDT

    ... to solve, said Thomas Harvey, co-founder and executive director of ArchCity Defenders, a nonprofit advocacy group that provides legal services for indigent people in Ferguson and the rest of St. Louis County, Missouri. “Why do we as the public keep expecting police officers to fill the role of nurses ...

  • Column: The Democratic Party is not what it seems

    Column: The Democratic Party is not what it seems

    Jul 25, 2016 01:34 PM EDT

    ... without any form of healthcare. And he ushered the most deportations of any president in American history. It is also under President Obama that the Ferguson and Baltimore uprisings occurred. The Black Lives Matter movement rose in the midst of his silence and inaction. And, very personal for me as ...

  • Can Mississippi schools get ahead after a new round of budget cuts?

    Can Mississippi schools get ahead after a new round of budget cuts?

    Jun 29, 2016 04:54 PM EDT

    re are no plans to expand the curriculum. “We’re just trying to make ends meet with what we’ve got.” Still, he noted the cuts to state funding weren’t as bad as expected. “There are some positive things, even in the negative world,” Ferguson said. He said he ...

  • No charges in Cleveland’s Tamir Rice case, as latest shooting stokes anger for Chicago police

    No charges in Cleveland’s Tamir Rice case, as latest shooting stokes anger for Chicago police

    Dec 29, 2015 01:52 AM EDT

    There will be no charges filed in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland. That decision follows yet another weekend of tension over police shootings in Chicago, where two black residents were killed Saturday by officers, amid a city-wide uproar over the department's practices. William Brangham talks with Kris Wernowsky of Cleveland.com and...

  • New report reveals half of black millennials know victim of police violence

    New report reveals half of black millennials know victim of police violence

    Nov 04, 2015 05:43 PM EDT

    Years before the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray, more than half of African-American millennials indicated they, or someone they knew, had been victimized by violence or harassment from law enforcement, a new report says.

  • Race relations in U.S. at a low point in recent history, new poll suggests

    Race relations in U.S. at a low point in recent history, new poll suggests

    Sep 21, 2015 09:00 AM EDT

    In the year following the death of Michael Brown, America has seen its share of racial disquiet. It is with this backdrop that PBS NewsHour and Marist College’s Institute for Public Opinion conducted a survey of Americans that illustrates the contrast in opinions along racial lines about the opportunities available today for African Americans.

  • News Wrap: Former Clinton staffer to plead the 5th before House

    News Wrap: Former Clinton staffer to plead the 5th before House

    Sep 04, 2015 12:45 AM EDT

    In our news wrap Thursday, a former State Department staffer who helped set up Hillary Clinton's private email server plans to cite his right against self-incrimination before a House committee investigating the Benghazi attack. Also, presidential candidate Donald Trump ruled out a third party candidacy if he doesn’t win the Republican nomination.