Extreme heat has killed more than 11,000 people across the US since 1979, and heat waves are only getting worse. A brutal heat wave is forecasted to hit the Pacific…

The WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe. "People…

751 unmarked graves. That’s the latest discovery at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada. Another 215 bodies were found just last month. Native Americans are reeling at the…

Durham is showing what providing reparations for slavery could look like by actually trying to do it. The city’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $6 million that will…

The Stagville Plantation was once one of the largest plantations in North Carolina: 30,000 acres, with more than 900 enslaved people working the land. A. Kirsten Mullen, a folklorist and…

The mayors of 11 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles and Denver, agreed Friday to set up pilot programs offering reparations to some of their communities’ Black residents, offering a jolt…

Rep. Cori Bush celebrated the signing into law of Juneteenth as a federal holiday by urging the passage of social programs like reparations and ending what she referred to as housing and…

June 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. government will investigate the dark history of Indian boarding schools, and work to find the remains of children who died in them, Interior Secretary…

After the social unrest prompted by the murder of George Floyd, some are asking: Is it finally time for the U.S. to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? Today, we’ll…

The city of Charleston has committed $2 million toward the memorial honoring the nine victims and five survivors of the Emanuel AME Church shooting six years ago. The contribution was…