The Iowa City Council on Tuesday dealt another setback to its commission meant to propose solutions to systemic racism. On a 4-3 vote, after more than a dozen older residents…
Art, at times, speaks volumes. In the case of Gina Lee Robbins’ latest art exhibition, messages are whispered and shouted from her work. It consists of two separate installations, “Encounters”…
SACRAMENTO — More than a year after protesters toppled a statue of a Spanish missionary on the grounds of the California Capitol, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Friday to replace…
A monument dedicated to the abolition of slavery was unveiled in Richmond, Virginia, on Wednesday, two weeks after a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was taken down 2 miles away.…
[Episcopal News Service] Washington National Cathedral has commissioned a racial justice-themed replacement for its stained glass depicting two Confederate generals, windows that were removed four years ago amid a national reckoning…
By Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson (Reuters) – Gunmen shot and killed a prominent Rohingya Muslim leader in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, a United Nations spokesperson…
UN agency says 80pc of newly displaced Afghans are women, childrenRead more at:https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/un-agency-says-80pc-of-newly-displaced-afghans-are-women-children20210929192028/
(Reuters)More than 80 aid workers including some employed by the World Health Organization (WHO) were involved in incidents of sexual abuse and exploitation during an Ebola crisis in the Democratic…
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 1 million Syrian refugees in crisis-hit Lebanon are experiencing deteriorating conditions that have left nine out of ten of them in extreme poverty, U.N. agencies…
Should former colonial powers pay reparations to African and Caribbean nations harmed by slavery and colonialism? A growing group of countries at this week’s U.N. General Assembly meetings are saying…