Long under threat, Latin American journalists confront a new era of risk as they increasingly become the targets of violence and surveillance.

Discrimination was long baked into housing policy and practice in Evanston, Illinois. Now the city is the nation’s first to officially compensate African Americans for what systemic racism has done to their community.

Hundreds of proposed local voting laws threaten the votes of Latinos and others, a new lawsuit charges. The bills are competing against a federal effort to expand mail-in voting and other measures that fueled record turnout last November.