An Iowa City councilmember is calling on her colleagues to have a serious discussion about abolishing the police, as part of the city’s efforts to restructure its police force. Councilmember…
Black Americans have been fighting for reparations tied to slavery for generations. Here's what that fight looks like in 2021. After decades of work from activists pushing the issue, presidential…
To accelerate racial justice, we need a national truth commission—lessons and warnings from those who have been there before. ON NOV. 3, 1979, five young labor organizers were murdered by Nazis…
The Missouri bill has been pared back to only allow police to use chokeholds in self-defense if they or someone else are in serious danger EFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The…
In the weeks after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer last May, the insistence that his death would be—must be—the last such killing at the hands of law…
A group of around 40 people gathered in a small Mississippi community over the weekend to honor the memory of a man lynched in Lafayette County. The William Winter Institute…
Did you know that Los Angeles once had a thriving, affluent Black community called Sugar Hill that was obliterated when Interstate 10 was built right through it in the early 1960s? Or…
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case, leaving the powerful gun-rights group to face a New York state lawsuit accusing the NRA of financial abuses…
Researchers say their tests show the object is what it was supposed to be — a genuine shrunken human head — opening the door to its return to Ecuador. A…
Three teams of four puppeteers will accompany Little Amal from Turkey to Manchester to celebrate refugees A giant puppet of a nine-year-old Syrian refugee girl is to “walk” from Turkey…