This story was first published in Indian Country Today. As a survivor, child witness and mom of an 8-year-old daughter, the work of missing and murdered Indigenous women is extremely personal…
“It’s a really exciting time for our city,” said Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan as she answered questions on July 6 about the City’s Equitable Communities Initiative (ECI) and the recent…
The disinterred remains of nine Native American children who died more than a century ago while attending a government-run school in Pennsylvania were headed home to Rosebud Sioux tribal lands in South…
The systematic deletion of Latinx people by government databases, media organizations, and Hollywood has enabled killer cops, inhumane immigration policies, and more. On the night of March 23, 1979, Roberto…
The federal court ruled the officers are not entitled to official immunity. After three years of litigation, a federal jury awarded a Houston man more than $1 million in a…
California has agreed to pay reparations to those who were forcibly sterilized under old laws aimed at people deemed unfit to have children. The legislation, years in the making, will…
BERLIN — The UN human rights chief on Monday urged countries to “fully fund comprehensive processes” and take “a wide range of reparations measures” to address the legacies of slavery,…
Unfortunately, this committee will not be bipartisan because Republicans dispute the need for it What happened at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6? The American people want to know, so…
“We should certainly pursue bigger truths and more robust histories, better accounts of the reproduction of injustice, and better remedies for it.” In several recent posts for OpenGlobalRights, César Rodríguez-Garavito has suggested…
Most of its proposed budget would go to operations IOWA CITY — The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, created by the Iowa City Council in the wake of George Floyd’s murder…