Author: Reporter

Jennifer Cromack was combing through the American Baptist archive when she uncovered a slim box among some 18th and 19th century journals. Opening it, she found a scroll in pristine condition. A closer look revealed the 5-foot-long document was a handwritten declaration titled “A Resolution and Protest Against Slavery,” signed by 116 New England ministers in Boston and adopted March 2, 1847. Until its discovery in May at the archives in Groton, Massachusetts, American Baptist officials worried the anti-slavery document had been lost forever after fruitless searches at Harvard and Brown universities and other locations. A copy was last...

Dawn Price signs rent checks worth about $160,000 every month for 79 people that her nonprofit helps house in Laguna Beach, California. Usually, she logs into an online portal to withdraw enough from an account funded by a grant from the federal housing agency. But in February, she couldn’t. Access had been temporarily cut off for many housing organizations as part of the Trump administration’s cuts and funding freezes. “That was just a sea change for us for those dollars to be so immediately at risk,” said Price, the executive director of Friendship Shelter, which started in 1987 as...

Democratic state Representative Nicole Collier refused to come to the Texas state Capitol for two weeks. After returning on August 18 she refused to leave, and fellow Democrats joined her protest. Collier was among dozens of Democrats who left the state for the Democratic havens of California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York to delay the Republican-controlled Legislature’s approval of redrawn congressional districts demanded by Donald Trump. When they returned on August 18, Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police surveillance and escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again and scuttle the August 20 House vote on a new political...