When I first heard this argument from Palestinians 20 years ago, I rejected it. But the evidence is mounting before our eyes The latest chapter in the Israel-Palestine conflict unfolded…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday in favor of tribes in a case about the authority of tribal law enforcement in situations where non-Indigenous people may pose a…
Fans of HBO’s Lovecraft Country or Watchmen know something that this country has largely tried to forget: the Tulsa, Okla., race massacre, whose centennial falls on May 31—Memorial Day—in this year of racial reckoning.…
The USC Safe Communities Institute has announced a pilot program billed as the first comprehensive national registry of police officers who have been terminated or resigned due to misconduct. The LEWIS…
The Virginia Theological Seminary’s (VTS) ongoing effort to pay $1.7 million in reparations to the descendants of those enslaved at the school was highlighted this week in the New York Times. The…
The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans who were forced to work there. The program is among the first of its kind. One night in…
The remains of early Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest were finally being exhumed from a Memphis park, and the Black woman who led a long…
This commentary is by George Longenecker of Middlesex, a writer and retired professor. It might seem like the proposed constitutional amendment on slavery in Vermont, a national historic site in Tennessee, and…
SACRAMENTO — A historic California task force met for the first time Tuesday with the ultimate goal of recommending reparations for descendants of enslaved people and those affected by slavery. The…
The Ad Hoc Truth and Reconciliation Commission expressed support during its regular meeting held virtually Thursday for a local coalition's plan for an Excluded Workers Fund. In a letter sent to local Johnson…