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Justice
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Pleas, letters and negotiations: Brittney Griner’s long road home
The details that led to the day the Biden administration had been focused on for months, a promise fulfilled to a family and a nation.
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The 19th Explains: What we know about Brittney Griner’s case and what it took to get her home
As details about Griner’s release continue to emerge, The 19th spoke with Russia expert Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon about her case and the significance of her release.
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‘We all we got’: How Black people online steered the spotlight to Shanquella Robinson’s death
Black social media has often taken the lead in raising public consciousness when mainstream outlets overlook the death or disappearance of Black women.
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Bipartisan bill would require human trafficking hotline to be posted in every U.S. port of entry
Experts and advocates applaud the legislation but insist that more action be taken to address the root causes of the problem.
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Congress passes bill to ban NDAs in cases of workplace sexual harassment
Five years after the #MeToo movement took off, Congress is now limiting an employer’s ability to keep its employees quiet in cases of sexual assault and harassment.
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Supreme Court case altering Medicaid is 'an assault' on older adults and people with disabilities, advocates warn
Experts say the case could limit private citizens’ right to sue for recourse related to a host of government programs.
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The Supreme Court’s multiracial women justices clap back at challenges to affirmative action in colleges
At oral arguments Monday, Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson represented the court’s liberal side.
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The 19th Explains: How two Supreme Court cases could end affirmative action in colleges
In oral arguments Monday, a student organization is challenging the admissions diversity policies at both private and public schools for the first time.
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On #EconTwitter, #MeToo anger is boiling over
The economics field faced a reckoning in 2018 — but it’s not finished, especially because the protections offered by Title IX can fall short when it comes to conferences.
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Black mothers are at the center of a fight to keep youth out of an adult prison in Louisiana
Legal advocates say moving incarcerated youth to the once notoriously-violent Angola prison will traumatize them and limit their access to needed programs and services.