On March 3, 1819, the U.S. Congress enacted the Civilization Fund Act, authorizing the President, “in every case where he shall judge improvement in the habits and condition of such…

Donors on Wednesday pledged $33 million towards a UN-coordinated plan to prevent an ageing oil tanker moored off the west Coast of Yemen from sparking a potential ecological and humanitarian…

Amidst rising tensions, a months-long political stalemate and increasing speculation about yet another conflict in Europe, the international community must stand firm behind a peaceful, unified Bosnia and Herzegovina, the…

Racial justice groups and other organizations are pressing President Bidento use his executive authority to form a federal commission to study and develop reparations proposals for African Americans, as legislation calling…

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Terrell Osborne knows well what happens when urban renewal comes to communities of color. As a child growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, in the 1950s…

Nuu-chah-nulth historian Haa'yuups helped restore Northwest Coast Hall at American Museum of Natural History The American Museum of Natural History's Northwest Coast Hall — its oldest exhibit, focusing on Indigenous…

Indigenous women face murder rates up to 10 times the national average May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).  In…

NEW YORK—On the floor of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its New York headquarters, there are many apparent divides between nation-states and participating Indigenous peoples and…

People of color and other marginalized, low-income people will be most affected by an overturning of landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade, health and policy experts said after a leaked Supreme…

Proposal, which will go before city council, costs more but includes more community input IOWA CITY — Months after the Iowa City Council denied its first facilitator proposal, the city’s…