The population of people who are homeless increased for the first time since 2010, according the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and many shelters are having to turn people away.
Immigration lawyers have filed a complaint against a Florida detention center, alleging guards pepper-sprayed, shackled and used excessive force on Somali detainees and called them racial slurs, including the N-word.
James Damore was fired after criticizing Google's diversity efforts and suggesting that innate differences between men and women explain gender gaps in the tech sector.
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Psychologist Tania Lombrozo considers two books: In one, we learn what ancient Greece can tell us about Twitter trolls and, in the other, we're shown a world in which women have power over men.
Members of a rural Catholic parish in eastern Minnesota are at odds over the dismissal of three gay men from a church musical ensemble after the new pastor learned they are in same-sex marriages.
A prominent Minnesotan and his family are sharing their personal collection of slavery artifacts and African-American art in hopes of reframing the conversation on race in America today.
MPR News and the Hawthorne Neighborhood Association convened a discussion prompted by a recent Ground Level survey that found more hope among blacks than among whites.