The dark history of Native American boarding schools. By Christina Callicott “Only by complete isolation of the Indian child from his savage antecedents can he be satisfactorily educated.” When John…

In her three years working at the U.S. Census Bureau, Mónica García-Pérez remembers rarely seeing or hearing people like her. "I would never forget those years," says the economist who…

The California city of Santa Monica is offering housing to black families that owned homes in the path of Interstate 10 and other urban renewal projects built in the 1950s.…

The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced H.R. 40 every congressional session from 1989. He worked to get co-sponsors for the legislation for…

December 14, 2021 – In the wake of atrocities, violence, and discrimination, reparations can play an important role in improving public health and emotional healing, according to scholars and human rights…

In an essay in Wednesday’s New York Times, Michael Eric Dyson, a Baptist minister and Vanderbilt professor, made an eloquent argument for the power of restorative justice. He alluded specifically to…

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) - City leaders in Iowa City showed support for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Tuesday night, by giving commissioners until June 2023 to complete their charges.…

The Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to heal the generational divide within Iowa City’s Black community through restorative justice circles.  In the past year, the Iowa City…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana board on Friday voted to pardon Homer Plessy, whose decision to sit in a “whites-only” railroad car to protest discrimination led to the U.S.…

Afew months after I graduated from Stanford’s business school in 2013, Theranos was generating buzz on campus—and not all of it was good. One evening, I found myself in a…