Even though we’ve been having the same conversations about race for decades, it feels like something has shifted in 2020 — the status quo feels untenable, and ideas that once…

The labor of enslaved people paid for the founding of Harvard Law School, Antigua’s prime minister reminded the college’s president. More than 200 years ago, a wealthy Antiguan plantation owner…

Black reparations for slavery are a long-overdue approach to mitigating persistent disparities between Blacks and whites in the United States, according to a Perspective article in the New England Journal of Medicine…

Research suggests reparations for slavery could have reduced COVID-19 infections and deaths in U.S. This article is part of Harvard Medical School’s continuing coverage of medicine, biomedical research, medical education and policy…

(JTA) — Like many powerful politicians in Africa, Moise Katumbi goes by multiple titles. He is widely seen as the leader of the opposition of his native Democratic Republic of Congo, and…

Deadly weather will be hitting the U.S. more often, and America needs to get better at dealing with it, experts said as Texas and other states battled winter storms that…

BEIRUT (AP) — The deaths stacked up: a policeman shot dead with a pistol equipped with a silencer, a local official gunned down, his son wounded, an Iraqi man beheaded.…

Editor's note: This story contains descriptions that may be offensive.  Objects from the past fill every corner of the Farmers Co-op Antiques Mall in central Oregon: decoy ducks nested among…

Donald Trump disrupted the rule of law and democratic norms, behavior familiar to Latinos whose families have left authoritarian countries and the kind Cruz and Rubio denounce. As was true…

Apocalyptic warnings about climate change — such as the U.S. Geological Survey-Cornell-University of Arizona report in 2014 that the American Southwest faced a significant risk of a 35-year “megadrought” —…