Two of the most prominent women’s basketball programs in the country hired their first Black head coaches in a time of major racial reckoning.
Author: Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY
Women’s basketball preview: Aari McDonald pushing pace, and pushing Arizona to new heights
In returning for her senior season, the program’s first-ever first team All-American is a candidate for national player of the year
Parents can’t afford daycare and preschool. Oregon voters are giving it to kids for free.
In Oregon’s biggest city, preschool will soon be free. Activists say moms will return to the workforce. Could free daycare spread to other states?
COVID is pushing these college students to drop out. That could devastate the economy and their lives.
During the COVID pandemic, community college students are dropping out or sidelining their education. That could have devastating consequences.
‘Like smoking multiple packs a day’: Hazardous air quality worries West Coast parents
As fire season burns hotter and longer, which increasingly results in hazardous air blanketing the West Coast, what’s the risk for young children?
Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison among Women of the Century for arts, literature and media
Media executive Oprah Winfrey is one of the most famous, influential and wealthiest women in the world. Winfrey is on USA TODAY’s centennial list.
Why self-made millionaire Madam CJ Walker, Kamala Harris are missing from Women of the Century lists
Vice president running mate Kamala Harris and Madonna are among the missing women on USA TODAY Network’s Women of the Century project. Here’s why.
Defund police? Some cities have already started, investing in mental health instead
Across the U.S., some cities are investing millions of dollars into mental health resources and response teams while defunding some police budgets.
At a small Oregon meatpacking plant, first came fear, then a plan
At Nicky USA’s in Portland, Ore., sad realization struck that in the era of the coronavirus, the family business could not go on as planned.
More than 3,000 coronavirus deaths in US as large cities battle hospital bed shortages
The U.S. hit another grim milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic Monday, recording its 3,000 death as the nation’s most populated cities put out cries for aid and extra hospital beds.