Juneteenth is supposed to be a joyous occasion that is set aside as a federal holiday to commemorate the end of the institution of slavery in the United States — even though slavery did not truly end in the United States for another six months in December 1865, making it odd to have a day […]
The U.S. government is acknowledging that hydropower dams in the Pacific Northwest have harmed tribes. A new report from the Interior Department showed that dams built in the early 1900s along the Columbia River blocked fish migration and flooded thousands of acres — including sacred sites and burial grounds. Accordingly, the government acknowledged, tribes lost...
Pew Research Center has revised a recent study after advocates criticized the research institute for saying a majority of Black Americans believe “racial conspiracy theories” about U.S. institutions. The June 10 report, originally titled “Most Black Americans Believe Racial Conspiracy Theories About U.S. Institutions,” found that a majority of Black Americans believe U.S. institutions were designed, and continue, to...
For more than 400 years, over 15 million Africans were the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, according to data from the United Nations. By 1860, when the last census before the Civil War was taken, there were 4 million slaves in the South. But three years later, on Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln...
Israel's foreign minister warned Tuesday of "all-out war" with Hezbollah, after the Lebanese military and political group released what it said were videos of sensitive Israeli military sites and of civilian areas. Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had threatened his country and that Israel is "very close to the moment of...
Anthony Fauci, who served as a top medical advisor to former President Trump during the coronavirus pandemic, says Trump got the idea of promoting hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for the virus from Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "I believe he wanted so badly for this to go away the way influenza goes away, and...
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) mourned baseball great Willie Mays in a Tuesday statement. “Giants fans — and all Americans — mourn the loss of a San Francisco icon and an all-time great: Willie Mays,” Pelosi said of the former San Francisco Giants player. “The Say Hey Kid was a trailblazer, from the baseball...
The Biden administration approved a $360 million weapons sale to Taiwan Tuesday, the State Department announced. The announcement means the U.S. will be sending the island hundreds of armed drones, missile equipment and related support material, The Associated Press reported. The announcement comes at a time of heightened tension between Taiwan and China, who will...