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UNC-Chapel Hill's board of trustees will vote on the tenure of writer and professor Nikole Hannah-Jones. Her work on the 1619 Project stirred opposition, like the donor after whom the school is named.

At StoryCorps, Shantay Davies-Balch and Sabrina Beavers talk about the prevalence of premature births among Black mothers. "Why aren't these normal conversations?" Beavers asked.

Dr. Barbara Ferrer, LA County's public health director, describes a recent spike in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations among Black residents and also county efforts to improve vaccination rates.

The Pacific Northwest continues to see record high temperatures. Many people in Portland and Seattle don't have air conditioning. Homeless people across the area are especially vulnerable in the heat.

Utah's hate crime laws specifically include police as a protected category, along with race and gender. It's one of at least five states with such protections for law enforcement.

Now newly reissued, Gloria Naylor's 1982 novel-in-stories painted a group portrait of seven Black women living on a dingy street in an unnamed city, and the systematic racism they faced.

Public health figures believe a focus on boosters for the already vaccinated will hasten the emergence of new variants among the billions of unvaccinated people — including a vaccine-resistant strain.

A grand jury in Houston has returned indictments against two members of a group that targeted Planned Parenthood with a string of undercover videos last year. The felony indictments are a twist as the panel was originally tasked with investigation the group's claim that Planned Parenthood was selling fetal tissue.

The Republican presidential candidate says he favors keeping all of the Bush-era tax cuts and then adding some more. To pay for these cuts, he would reduce or eliminate some of the tax deductions that many Americans have come to rely on. Economists support that plan, but Mitt Romney must win over Americans who benefit from them.

The 2014 midterm election campaigns are almost over — all $3.7 billion worth of them. Most of that money was spent on television advertising.