Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...

LUBUMBASHI is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have ...

At 88, historian David Levering Lewis, a biographer of W.E.B. DuBois, has filled in gaps in his knowledge of his own family ...

On Oct. 7, 1885, a 16-year-old German barber named Friedrich boarded a ship for New York. Fleeing the military service then ...

Whether by starvation, disease, forced labor or street executions, the Nazi plan was to exterminate the Jews. All of them. As a child and grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I was in awe of their ...

The spotlight is firmly on Sajda Pathan, whose own life story mirrors the resilience portrayed in the film. Rescued from child labor in Delhi by the Salaam Baalak Trust, Sajda has overcome incredible ...

Ultra-nationalist Israeli extremists attacked Palestinian farmers and residents conducting agricultural work on Palestinian land in the South Hebron Hills region of the West Bank on Wednesday ...

Pablo Alvarado is the co-executive director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, better known as NDLON. The 58-year-old El Salvador native is a legend in the local immigrant rights ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage.

Labour has confirmed it intends to “deliver the full level ... over £400 a month – an even worse reduction in income on an individual level than the two-child limit imposes,” Ozmen added. Previous ...