The economic cost of the Israeli blockade of Gaza has reached $16.7 billion, according to the latest analysis by the United Nations. The figure is six times Gaza’s entire gross…
Retail giant Macy's is under fire after calling the Zeta Phi Beta Centennial Steppers a "diverse dance group" in a Thanksgiving Day tweet. Zeta Phi Beta, founded at Howard University…
f you were to greet a Neanderthal with a handshake, it might feel a little awkward. The digits of the Stone Age people, who went extinct about 40,000 years ago,…
While families across the U.S. were celebrating Thanksgiving with scaled-down gatherings or Zoom calls, protesters were toppling historical statues and monuments. In Washington state, the Spokane Police Department reported that…
Cassidy Kramer is part of the Inupiaq community, who have relied on Alaska's land for thousands of years. Like her father, she goes hunting and fishing to provide for the…
In 2016, J.D. Vance published his memoir Hillbilly Elegy to unexpected commercial success. The book, as much an intricate reflection on white working-class Americans as a personal history, became a controversial hit among Democrats…
When Paula Peters was in second grade in Philadelphia in the mid-1960s, listening to a teacher talk about Plymouth colony and the Mayflower, a student asked what happened to the…
Keita O’Neil was fatally shot by a rookie San Francisco police officer in 2017 after he allegedly carjacked a state lottery employee's van. A former San Francisco police officer who…
The votes have been counted (and recounted) and the results have been announced. The bushel of hail Mary lawsuits have been filed, appealed, dismissed, and all but laughed at. Countless…
The U.S. will still emit bounties of carbon into the atmosphere this year. In a tweet about greenhouse gases, Ivanka Trump has redefined ignorance. On Tuesday, the president's daughter, an…