The Black Lives Matter movement, founded in 2013, has changed the way the nation talks about race. But the organization itself may be disconnected from local chapters. In 2013, Alicia…
In the final of the Christmas Lectures on BBC Four, environmental scientist Tara Shine will talk about carbon emissions and their impact on our planet. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures…
A court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the immediate release of four men who had been jailed there since 2002 for the murder of the Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl. The…
(JTA) — Even in the most challenging circumstances, Irena Veisaite never missed a chance to foster tolerance and understanding. One of the few Jews to survive the Holocaust in Lithuania,…
(JTA) — Graffiti reading “good Jew dead Jew’ and “murdering Jews we will hang you” were written on the gate of a Jewish cemetery near Madrid, Spain. The graffiti, featuring…
“There’s a fine line between having empathy and recognizing that these conversations are going to be difficult … and then making sure we’re not giving them a pass because it’s…
After black women helped push Trump from office, Seyward Darby’s work on white extremists is more resonant than ever It’s not Proust, Nietzsche or even Toni Morrison when it comes…
From commitments to produce more electric vehicles to new marine protections, these trends may be a sign of good things to come. In 2020, wildfires raged through Australia and the…
A decade ago, scientists worried the lion could go extinct in Kenya by 2020. But today the area’s lion population is thriving thanks to an extraordinary group. Maasai warrior Kamunu…
Donald Trump has revealed the depths of the country’s prejudice—and has inadvertently forced a reckoning. I. Marine One waited for the president of the United States on the South Lawn…