The officer was in stable condition after the shooting, which happened early on Saturday outside the 25th Precinct station house. A New York City police officer was hospitalized in stable…

Americans are less likely to respond to a request for help from a Black person than from a white person, according to a new study published by the Proceedings of the…

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland’s Indigenous community wants to be seen. Most educational curriculums teach about Native Americans during the early days of European settlement, including wars. But members of Cleveland’s…

Coming into effect January 1st, California’s new law will allow Indigenous populations to exercise their right to “good fire,” controlled burns designed to take care of the land. These low-intensity fires…

Transgender adults were three times as likely as cisgender people to experience food insecurity this year, according to new data analyzed by the Williams Institute at UCLA. The data, which was…

Beth Howard came up with the slogan “Rednecks for Black Lives,” which has since become the name of a Facebook group interested in racial justice issues.  Howard, who grew up…

The dark history of Native American boarding schools. By Christina Callicott “Only by complete isolation of the Indian child from his savage antecedents can he be satisfactorily educated.” When John…

In her three years working at the U.S. Census Bureau, Mónica García-Pérez remembers rarely seeing or hearing people like her. "I would never forget those years," says the economist who…

The California city of Santa Monica is offering housing to black families that owned homes in the path of Interstate 10 and other urban renewal projects built in the 1950s.…

The Honorable John Conyers, who represented Detroit in Congress from 1965 until 2017, introduced H.R. 40 every congressional session from 1989. He worked to get co-sponsors for the legislation for…