KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City took its first steps Tuesday toward addressing the history of slavery and oppressive policies affecting Black people. City Council approved establishing a 13 member Mayor’s Commission…
SHELBURNE — Two years ago, the Vermont Legislature apologized to all Vermonters and their families who were harmed by state-sanctioned eugenics policies that started in the early 1900s and led…
Americans have erected countless monuments to wars gone by. But how do we pay tribute to the fallen in a conflict that might never end? On my first deployment to…
A historian and a linguist, working together, revealed new truths about the relationship between Spanish colonizers and the Timucua people In this page from Confessionario En lengua Castellana y Timuquana Con…
High rates of asthma in black children linked to racist housing laws This story is part two of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime.…
The remains of a Medal of Honor recipient who died fighting in Korea went unidentified for 73 years. Today, Army Pfc. Luther Herschel Story received a burial with military honors.…
By HANNA ARHIROVA May 26, 2023 LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The two children squinted to see through the thick smoke that hung in the air after a deafening blast shook…
The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have harmed generations of Black Americans. From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared…
DALLAS (AP) — Cindy Campos’ 5-year-old son was so excited about the Winnie the Pooh book he got at school that he asked her to read it with him as…
This story is part five of an AP series examining the health disparities experienced by Black Americans across a lifetime. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Constance Guthrie is not yet dead, but her daughter…