California lawmakers will soon be voting on a a sweeping reparations plan for Black Californians. California is closer than ever to enacting reparations! The state’s reparations task force recently submitted…
The Russian branch of Greenpeace International has been forced to shut down after officials in the country declared the organization’s activities as “undesirable.” Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office said in a Telegram statement…
CANBERRA, Australia — Prominent Indigenous journalist Stan Grant announced that, after Monday, he will step away from television hosting duties after viewers responded with racist abuse to his comments during King…
After years of printing comics at Kinko’s and selling them at conventions and local shops, Gene Luen Yang didn’t expect his 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese to get the attention it…
Descendants of enslaved people want land seized by the state returned and recognition of the gold rush’s rich, and largely ignored, Black history. The twin brothers Jonathan and Matthew Burgess are descendants…
https://youtu.be/Oh7LNeTX4Dg?si=f-TUc96pEumP20jn First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of Trinity, the world's first nuclear bomb detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima. It is a…
The cold formality of the letter is seared in Debra Long’s memory. It began “Dear Claimant,” and said her 24-year-old son, Randy, who was fatally shot in April 2006, was…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy investigation prompted by a spate of suicides is recommending widespread improvements in housing, food, parking and internet for sailors as well as changes to mental…
A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest…
Ancient texts suggest romantic smooching, and likely the diseases it transmitted, were widespread in Mesopotamia “My upper lip becomes moist, while my lower lip trembles! I shall embrace him, I…