Editor’s note: This article was initially published Oct. 8, 2020. His life began as the last embers of the civil rights movement were flickering out. Its horrific, videotaped end ignited…

Ethiopia’s Tigray region is facing a deepening hunger emergency, with about 350,000 people threatened by famine. It is the most severe starvation crisis in the world right now, and it…

The United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of flagrantly violating international law by expanding settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, saying settlements are illegal and urging the country’s…

Using data from long-running Harvard studies on nutrition, researchers looked at the health habits of 73,196 women in the U.S. over 34 years and 38,366 men in the U.S. over…

Extreme heat has killed more than 11,000 people across the US since 1979, and heat waves are only getting worse. A brutal heat wave is forecasted to hit the Pacific…

The WHO urged fully vaccinated people to continue to wear masks and practice other Covid-19 pandemic safety measures as the highly contagious delta variant spreads rapidly across the globe. "People…

751 unmarked graves. That’s the latest discovery at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children in Canada. Another 215 bodies were found just last month. Native Americans are reeling at the…

Durham is showing what providing reparations for slavery could look like by actually trying to do it. The city’s budget for the next fiscal year includes $6 million that will…

The Stagville Plantation was once one of the largest plantations in North Carolina: 30,000 acres, with more than 900 enslaved people working the land. A. Kirsten Mullen, a folklorist and…

The mayors of 11 U.S. cities, including Los Angeles and Denver, agreed Friday to set up pilot programs offering reparations to some of their communities’ Black residents, offering a jolt…