Samaria “Cookie” Mitcham Bailey was among the first Black students to desegregate Macon’s public schools. Now, her great-granddaughter, Zo’e Johnson, attends a majority-white private school founded as ...

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Ecologist Peggy Eby’s discovery after decades of studying bats in Australia underscores the time and shoe-leather research needed to prevent future pandemics.

Pearson offered help to voters who struggle to read. For taking on one of America’s oldest forms of voter suppression, she got threats, a trip to jail and a reminder of the nation’s long legacy of ...

Though the state faces a critical child care shortage, the government has not made it easy to open new facilities. These are ...

Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 ...

Our reporters mined a trove of data that revealed detailed demographic information about private schools. That helped us find ...

The executive order follows a ProPublica investigation that found Microsoft prioritized profit over security, leaving the ...

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Some of the bills were filed in direct response to ProPublica’s reporting on the fatal consequences of abortion bans.