Hundreds ofthe world’s endangeredand threatened languages are spokenin and around New York City. Videos by Ruven Afanador Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to…

Largest cluster of sunken vessels from the 18th and 19th centuries have been identified, bearing ‘silent witness’ to the colonial past They were the ships that carried enslaved Africans on…

The Yugoslav exhibition at Auschwitz-Birkenau was closed for fifteen years as six successor states - where Nazi collaboration and war crimes fuel national divisions to this very day - couldn't…

Penn Medicine research finds that Black adults across the U.S. suffer from sleep problems following exposure to news about unarmed Black individuals killed by police during police encounters. February 8,…

The Justice Department proposed changes Monday to rules governing state-run programs that provide financial assistance to violent crime victims in order to address racial disparities and curb the number of…

New York City police officers will be required to record the apparent race, gender and ages of most people they stop for questioning under a law passed Tuesday by the…

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver Public Schools is facing two federal civil rights investigations that allege the district discriminates against students who are white. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil…

'We want everyone to know this is possible,' First Presbyterian Church of Lansing Pastor Stanley Jenkins said Boston reparations task force member looks to 'reconcile, repair' areas of education, health,…

The Reparation Priority Bill Package does not include cash payouts to Black residents across the board. The California Legislative Black Caucus introduced more than a dozen reparation-related bills Wednesday, the…

The set of bills notably excludes direct cash payments. The 14 measures introduced by the Legislative Black Caucus touch on education, civil rights and criminal justice, including reviving a years-old…