By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) -A federal court jury on Friday awarded $14 million to a dozen activists who sued Denver police, claiming excessive force was used against peaceful protesters…
SACRAMENTO — Antoinette Harrell has spent nearly three decades of her life verifying cases of slavery in the South before and after emancipation. She visits grave sites, interviews grandparents, explores dusty attics,…
The ICMGLT is honored to announce that the President of the Human Rights Council appointed our Board of Directors Member Mr. Pablo de Greiff as a Commissioner to the UN’s…
California’s first-in-the-nation task force on reparations has decided to limit state compensation to the descendants of free and enslaved Black people who were in the U.S. in the 19th century,…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Days before his own death, Louisiana Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth walked into a secure room deep inside state police headquarters, swore an oath and told…
(JTA) — “How long have known me, Stu?” Madeleine Albright asked me that question with a sense of urgency I had not heard from her before. It was mid-January 1996,…
President Biden signed into law Tuesday a historic bill to make lynching a federal hate crime in the U.S. for the first time. Why it matters: The new law comes…
A Liberian accused of having been a rebel leader during the deadly civil war that tore his country apart has been arrested in the United States, suspected of hiding his…
Amid deteriorating security in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the top UN envoy in the country has called for a comprehensive political strategy that…
Now entering its third year, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to hold back some 405 million school children worldwide from a full return to the classroom, according to a new…