1921 massacre obliterated a prosperous Black community, marking one of American history's darkest chapters of racial violence HOUSTON, US It has been more than 100 years since the massacre that…
Gina Castro June 1st, 2023 The city is confident the federal Internal Revenue Service won’t take a cut of an individual’s cash reparations payment for taxes, but isn’t as certain…
In 2020, California established the first-in-nation law to study and develop reparations proposals for slavery and its lingering negative effects on African Americans. The resulting Reparations Task Force recently approved recommendations on how the…
A landmark report from the state’s reparations task force could take decades to implement, as major proposals remain unpopular with voters. Both legislative proposals that failed in recent days had…
By Nick Reisman Albany/Capital Region PUBLISHED 7:48 AM ET Jun. 07, 2023 PUBLISHED 7:48 AM EDT Jun. 07, 2023 New York state lawmakers in the coming days are poised to…
A veteran Greek diver specializing in locating sunken ships announced Wednesday that he has found a British submarine that disappeared during a World War II mission in 1942. Kostas Thoctarides…
London — Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg, who rose to prominence in 2018 when she started a global youth movement of school strikes to demand action on climate change, is…
A natural weather event known as El Niño has begun in the Pacific Ocean, likely adding heat to a planet already warming under climate change. US scientists confirmed that El…
(JTA) — The city of Vienna will tilt the statue of an antisemitic former mayor 3.5 degrees to the right in order to shift the viewer’s “perspective on it,” a…
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — When Alexei Navalny turns 47 on Sunday, he’ll wake up in a bare concrete cell with hardly any natural light. He won’t be able to see…