Compensating the families of Black Californians who were scarred by slavery is a delicate, complex and controversial task — as the unprecedented state panel pondering the issue is finding out.…
American cities, private institutions and others are stepping in to fill the gap by implementing their own reparations programs. The last few years have seen a revival of the debate…
After eighty years, the site of a mass execution of Jews was about to be commemorated. Then Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In late September, 1941, after months…
https://youtu.be/Hk4HF139W68 Sami was at his parents’ house back in the village, when peace began to break out. He had gone there with his wife and kid for his brother's wedding…
https://youtu.be/ps3tI85Nq9U A young Russian Jewish immigrant in Brighton Beach, caught up in the tight constraints of his community, develops a close friendship with his grandfather’s new neighbors, two elderly closeted…
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — The coffin was made from pieces of a closet. In a darkened basement under a building shaking from the bombardment of war, there were few other…
CR found 'forever chemicals' in bowls, bags, plates, and wrappers, even from some companies that say they've phased them out In 1938, a 27-year-old chemist named Roy Plunkett stumbled across…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-FokA1bS0s The coronavirus pandemic fundamentally disrupted every aspect of American life. Now, two years after the beginning of a once-in-a-generation pandemic, an economic downturn, racial-justice uprisings, and reform proposals, how…
This International Center for MultiGenerational Legacies of Trauma multi-disciplinary webinar is held in advance of 24 April – the day commemorating the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire that began…
As Brussels focuses on aggression by Moscow, a more insidious threat to democracy has strengthened its hand in Budapest. If asked to name the greatest threat facing Europe today, the…