You’re probably asking, “Didn’t the 13th Amendment end slavery in 1865?” And you’re probably also asking, “Are Black people still being enslaved in modern-day America?” The answer to the first…
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced the resolution of a racial harassment complaint filed against Ottumwa Community School District in Iowa. OCR determined that…
The new commission charged with bridging Erie County's racial divide plunged with demoralizing speed from its historic first grant awards in September to the chaos lately sown by County Executive…
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a paper last month that looked at the association between health equity and wealth between Black and white Americans. In particular,…
Julianne Malveaux Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) introduced H.R. 40 in every congressional session from 1989 until he left Congress in 2017. Then, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) ably took the…
The first-in-the-nation task force previously voted to limit reparations to Black California residents whose ancestors were living in the U.S. in the 19th century. California’s committee to study reparations for…
The council also voted to reaffirm a 1993 declaration that Los Angeles is a "Racism Free City," and a 2020 declaration calling racism a public health crisis. The Los Angeles…
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday. Federico Doehnert of the World Food Program…
The UN is urging countries around the Andaman Sea in South East Asia to assist a boat carrying at least 150 Rohingya refugees which has been drifting without power for…
"Good news that journalists are being reinstated Twitter, but serious concerns remain," Volker Turk said on the platform, insisting "Twitter has a responsibility to respect human rights." The United Nations rights chief…