Rep. Judy Chu of California was among the more than 100 people arrested at an abortion rights protest in Washington, DC, on Thursday, according to a statement from her office.  "When I…

Legislation that would establish a state committee on slavery reparations will wait another year after failing to make it out of committee in the state Senate.  The legislation (A.9435/S.7215) was…

Georgia state Sen. Kim Jackson has pretty much given up on the idea that Black Georgians might some day receive reparations for past injustices.  “In Georgia, the concept of reparations…

BY DAVID PAULSEN [Episcopal News Service] The 80th General Convention is set to consider a proposed $100 million churchwide budget for 2023-24 when it convenes July 8-11 in Baltimore, Maryland, after the convention’s budgetary…

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del.- What was once a giant, empty wall covered in graffiti is now home to a new mural paying homage to the African American community of West Rehoboth…

ATHENS, Ala. (AP) — Amid the stream of mass shootings that have become chillingly commonplace in America, the reality of the nation’s staggering murder rate can often be seen more…

My Armen­ian grand­fa­ther, JK, was mar­ried to an Armen­ian woman named Haganoush, who dis­cov­ered she couldn’t have chil­dren. For JK, not hav­ing a male heir was com­plete­ly unac­cept­able. But Haganoush had been brought…

Ear­ly in my writ­ing career, I attend­ed an event at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton dis­cussing the pres­ence of Sephardic Jews in Seat­tle. I was prob­a­bly the youngest per­son in the audi­ence. Most…

The UN human rights chief called on Tuesday for a prompt, impartial and “transparent investigation” into the deaths of at least 18 people during clashes at protests in the Uzbek…

Nearly a third of all women in developing countries, start having children at the age of 19 or younger, and nearly half of first births to adolescents, are to children…