Aaron Morrison

FILE- People wait in line to enter the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Cultural on the National Mall in Washington, Mat 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump’s latest DEI target: The Smithsonian and its $1 billion annual budget

By The Associated Press, Hillel Italie, and others

Jose Catalan

The federal government is shelling out $130 million to bring free college to about 30,000 inmates in places like Folsom Prison

By Aaron Morrison and The Associated Press

Makia Green

‘White supremacy at work’: A Black community organizer with $20,000 in student loans sees a pattern in the court challenge to debt relief

By Annie Ma, Aaron Morrison, and others

Makia Green stands outside her Washington home on June 12, 2023. As a Black student who was raised by a single mother, Green believes she benefited from a program that gave preference to students of color from economically disadvantaged backgrounds when she was admitted over a decade ago to the University of Rochester. As a borrower who still owes just over $20,000 on her undergraduate student loans, she has been counting on President Joe Biden’s promised debt relief to wipe nearly all of that away. Now, both affirmative action and the student loan cancellation plan — policies that disproportionately help Black students — could soon be dismantled by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)

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Americans aided by affirmative action and student loans see backlash to racial progress in Supreme Court cases

By Annie Ma, Aaron Morrison, and others

Rev. Monica Marshall browses a room containing artifacts of the church's history.

Historic Black churches are getting a $4 million boost to help with preservation after the COVID pandemic put renovations in danger

By Aaron Morrison and The Associated Press

D'Zhane Parker, left, Cicley Gay, center, and Shalomyah Bowers.

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Biden’s student loan relief plan is stalled so a Black Lives Matter organization is setting up their own fund

By Aaron Morrison and The Associated Press