Today, as the nation recognizes May 5, 2021 as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Awareness Day, Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a proclamation declaring the same in…
CHESTERTOWN — Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the leading United States civil rights organization, is the featured speaker for the inaugural Justice…
In two separate class action complaints, filed in state and federal court, the attorneys said their clients were arrested without justification and placed in cells with other detainees who were…
At their meeting on April 27, the Yonkers City Council voted 4-3 in favor of a resolution that supports efforts in Washington DC to study Reparations proposals for African-Americans, at…
New guidance calls for Church of England to review monuments for ‘contested heritage’ and relocate or remove them The Church of England is to review thousands of monuments in churches…
Under former Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, officers tortured at least 100 Black men into confessions over two decades. DOWNTOWN — Six years after the city passed a reparations package, police…
Activists have been marking May 5th as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIW, or MMIWG, or MMIWG2ST) day since 2017, and April 29-May 5th as the National Week…
BEMIDJI, Minn. — Hundreds of people gathered from all around the country — with some from as far away as California — by the Lake Bemidji waterfront on Wednesday for…
Deavers called the violence against Indigenous women an “ongoing form of genocide, a genocide that has never ended.” American Indians and Alaska Natives are 2.5 times more likely to experience…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some shared agonizing stories of frustration and loss. Others prayed and performed ceremonies. All called for action. Across the U.S. on Wednesday, family members, advocates and…