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The kind of world you grow up and live in is still too often determined by your race. A look at inequality in five key areas of American life. BY [...]

Judy Heumann knows what it's like to grow up in a world that wasn't built for her. In 1949, when she was 18 months old, she contracted polio, which left [...]

AS YOU READ, THINK ABOUT How does the 1918 pandemic compare with the one today? When Violet Harris, a 15-year-old in Seattle, Washington, learned that officials were closing schools to [...]

Massive protests over the killing of George Floyd have sparked a moment of racial reckoning in America. What will happen next? When 15-year-old Kennedy Green learned about the death of [...]

When Violet Harris, a 15-year-old junior at Lincoln High School in Seattle, learned on October 5, 1918, that officials were shutting down schools to halt the spread of a deadly [...]

At noon on April 22, 1970, all cars, taxis, and buses were barred from a two-mile stretch of Fifth Avenue in New York City. A massive crowd of 250,000 people [...]

You know about the long fight against segregation in the South. But civil rights struggles in the rest of the nation have often been overlooked. On February 3, 1964, nearly [...]

Facial recognition technology can identify people's faces--and may make Americans safer. But is it also threatening our privacy? As You Read, Think About: What are the benefits and drawbacks of [...]

Ten-year-old Rogan Miller spends nearly all of his free time playing basketball. Just about every day after school, Rogan practices at the gym near his home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. [...]

Vaping has been linked to a surge in mysterious life-threatening illnesses. What can be done to stop it? As You Read, Think About: How does vaping affect people? What are [...]

1619 This article is part of Upfront's ongoing series about the African American experience, inspired by The New York Times' 1619 Project. Just after 4 p.m. on February 1,1960, four [...]

Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia, many people still don't fully understand American slavery. Here's what we often get wrong. In 1619, a ship docked [...]

Student-athletes have long been barred from earning money for their talents. But a new California law would let college players cash in for the first time. Each fall, hordes of [...]

Chris Gueffroy lived his entire 20 years trapped behind the Berlin Wall, unable to reach freedom just on the other side. The imposing structure ran nearly 100 miles, stood 12 [...]

When most people think of the heroes of the American Revolution, icons such as George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and John Adams usually come to mind. But many of the colonists [...]

In August, a gunman opened fire in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. Like many other mass shootings in recent years around the country--from Charleston, South Carolina, [...]

He was a frail man who wore glasses and a traditional Hindu loincloth called a dhoti, walked with a bamboo staff, and had a toothless grin. He looked like a [...]

More police departments are using facial recognition to help solve crimes. But as the use of the technology grows, so do privacy concerns. It was all caught on camera. In [...]

The United States locks people up at a higher rate than any other country, thanks to its tough-on-crime laws. Now Congress is easing some of those policies that have put [...]

Fifty years ago this summer, the U.S. became the first--and so far only--nation to land people on the moon. The anniversary comes just as a new race to the moon [...]

Twenty years ago, a college student was brutally murdered just for being himself. Learn how his death changed our country--and why his legacy remains important to America's future. FROM AN [...]

Barbara Johns had finally had enough. It was the spring of 1951, and her school, the all-black Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, was literally falling [...]

Eighty years ago, a ship approached U.S. shores with more than 900 Jewish refugees on board, begging for safety from the Nazis. What happened next might surprise you. All Ruth [...]

As more people hand over their DNA to genealogy services to uncover their ancestry, police are using this genetic info to solve crimes. It may help keep us safer, but [...]

Throughout history, Native Americans were pushed off their territories by white settlers, and later the U.S. government, onto smaller and smaller patches of land. But in a ruling expected later [...]

Matthew Shepard wanted to make a difference in the world. When he was just 7 years old, he was already getting involved in politics, volunteering for an environmental group that [...]

Football is one of America's favorite sports. But is it too dangerous for you to play?DURING THE FALL OF 2017, Clayton Cohen could often be found on his high school's [...]

How a 13-year-old's 1960s court battle helped guarantee your right to express yourself in school MARY BETH TINKER had never felt so nervous. As she got ready for school on [...]

Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Tinker and her 15-year-old brother, John, felt that they had to do something. It was 1965, and thousands of U.S. troops were fighting in the Vietnam War--a [...]

It's as small as a flash drive--but has as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. Did the company behind this popular electronic cigarette intentionally market its product to teens?Margarida [...]

The first memorial to honor the victims of lynching opens in Montgomery, Alabama--and raises the question: What does it mean to confront the past?Eight hundred weathered steel beams hang from [...]

It's as small as a flash drive but has as much nicotine as a pack of cigarettes. Did the company behind the popular electronic cigarette intentionally market its product to [...]

On November 26, people across the U.S. will celebrate Thanksgiving. But the holiday means something different to 14-year-old Storam Coombs. That's because her ancestors were at what is often called [...]

Today's college students are graduating with more student loan debt than any generation before. Can anything be done about it? When she was a senior at High Point University in [...]

Some students and employees are being targeted for their hairstyle. New 'hair discrimination' laws aim to stop the practice. A high school student in New Jersey forced to cut off [...]

The summer that just ended produced some of the hottest-ever temperatures across the globe. Are we prepared for life on a warmer planet? One afternoon this summer, the Algerian town [...]

Thousands of Puerto Ricans have fled to the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Maria struck last September. Back on the island, many residents have faced a long road to recovery, DERICK [...]

In 1931, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a book in which the last living person brought to America as a slave from Africa recounts his life. The book was never published--until [...]

Thousands of Puerto Ricans have fled to the U.S. mainland since Hurricane Maria struck last September. Back on the island, many residents have faced a long road to recovery. Derick [...]

Facebook, Google, and other tech companies are tracking your every move. Should Congress step in to protect your privacy? Whenever Phoebe Companion-Racicot, 15, downloads an app on her phone and [...]

IN MAY 1943, Betsy Jochum stepped onto the diamond at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs. She and nearly 300 other women from across the United States and [...]

In May 1943, Betsy Jochum stepped onto the diamond at Wrigley Field, the home of the Chicago Cubs. She and nearly 300 other women from across the United States and [...]

Dawson Leach knows the importance of eating a healthy breakfast. 'It gets your brain going for school,' says the fifth-grader from Meridian, Idaho. At home, Dawson often has a big [...]

Your smartphone and all those apps were designed to grab your attention. But now even some in the tech industry say the gadgets have become too addictive. The first thing [...]

Your smartphone--and the games and apps on it--are designed to grab and hold your attention. But what effect is all that screen time having on you? The first thing Alfredo [...]

On April 3,1968, Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Memphis, Tennessee. At the time, he was the leading voice of the civil rights movement. That was the long struggle to [...]

'Mini pigs' are popular pets. But experts say buyers should beware. The Monroys were taken by surprise. In 2013, the family from El Monte, California, bought a new pet: a [...]

The nation was shocked. On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes and submarines carried out a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. That's a U.S. military base in Hawaii. More than 2,400 [...]

Daniel and Isabella Gomez's mom and dad are in the Army. What's life like for the kids when their parents are serving overseas? In July 2016, 10-year-old Daniel Gomez and [...]

On July 26, 1945, a United States Navy ship called the USS Indianapolis had just finished a secret mission that would help end World War II. Four days later, the [...]