GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Tuesday that the situation in Iran was “critical”, describing a hardening of the authorities’ response to protests that…
Agassizhorn is an alp in Switzerland named after a notorious scientist. Sasha Huber explains why she flew to the summit by helicopter and rechristened it Rentyhorn – in honour of…
Navajo code talkers used their language to devise a code that helped America win WWII. Many Native American children were punished for speaking their native tongues. The code talkers' legacy…
Tribal leaders have renewed calls for a place in the U.S. House of Representatives, a unique provision of the landmark Treaty of New Echota. Here's how it came to be.…
NEW YORK (AP) — One hundred years ago, a revolutionary Polish patriot argued that Russia’s hunger for territory would continue to destabilize Europe unless Ukraine could gain independence from Moscow. …
Those who believe that inequalities are caused by “natural” or “internal” differences among racial groups show more racial bias against Black children White children who are exposed to larger racial…
WASHINGTON — To reduce racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system, local, state, and federal government should explore ways to reduce police stops and searches, jail detention, prison admission,…
Throughout its history, the US has adopted policies that threatened to wipe outNative American tribes and their cultures – or as one Army officer put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save…
Oregon voters approved a change to the state’s constitution, stripping language that for more than a century has allowed for slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. As…
When Isaac Franklin died in 1846, he owned a swath of plantations in central Louisiana — and at least 600 enslaved people. As king of the domestic slave trade, he got rich…