ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. government is dedicating $60 million over the next few years to projects along the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and West Texas to…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The Vodou faithful sing, their voices rising above the gunfire erupting miles away as frantic drumbeats drown out their troubles. They pause to swig rum out…
State of Nepal falls short to protect Dalits; distrust in the police and justice system Inadequate and insufficient measures to address systemic caste-based discrimination Culture of impunity; Dalit women…
NEW YORK — On April 26, the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) once again called on Canada and the US to decommission Line 5. In its report, the UNPFII…
Eighty years ago, my grandparents, four of my aunts, and two of my uncles were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were among the nearly 440,000 deported from Hungary’s provinces, the last…
[by Meg Perkins] Speaker Billy Walker CEO Yaegi Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation Registered Native Body Corporation Indigenous leader. Image supplied First Nations children are being incarcerated at ever-increasing rates. Recent…
Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S. A former California park ranger traced his fingers over the Chinese characters carved onto…
Nonprofit Presents Silent No More: Women in the Haitian Revolution on Wednesday, May 15, at 7 p.m. BOSTON – Enslaved women represented nearly half of colonial Haiti’s plantation populations and…
From marches and art exhibitions to candlelight vigils, people are gathering across the U.S. to spotlight the high rate of disappearances and killings in Native American communities ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)…
By Wendy WassersteinFebruary 13, 2000 The Baby Who Arrived Too Soon As I tried to become a parent in my late forties, I thought that getting pregnant would be the hard…