Category U.S.

A decade ago, a USA TODAY investigation helped reveal the national backlog of rape kits. Evidence from thousands of sexual assaults had been left to sit – untested – in law enforcement storage. In time, the backlog grew to hundreds…

Fearless Fund, a venture capitalist firm that invests in female entrepreneurs of color, has settled a discrimination lawsuit over a grant program specifically for Black women. The lawsuit from the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) claimed that the fund’s…