Culture

The statue is outside the Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary in Elmhurst, Queens. DCPI A vandal spray-painted “IDOL” across the skirt of a Virgin Mary statue in Elmhurst, Queens, early Friday, police said. The statue […]

Six years ago, North Carolina set aside $10 million in reparations to compensate victims of a state eugenics program that forcibly sterilized more than 7,000 people well into the 1970s — many of whom were […]

Tony Burroughs’ great-great-great-great grandfather was freed from slavery in 1806 by a white woman from Pennsylvania. In her last will and testament, Margaret Hutton had specified that David Truman was to be taught to read […]

More than 10,600 religious organizations have taken at least $3bn in coronavirus financial aid from the US government, according to an analysis by the Guardian, raising concerns about the separation of church and state. The […]

The mayor of Jackson, Mississippi says it’s time the city disassociates itself from the former U.S. president it was named for. In a statement, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said he wants to reclaim the city’s […]

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the eastern half of Oklahoma can be considered Native American territory, a decision the state previously warned could create “civil, criminal and regulatory turmoil.” The 5-4 decision […]

Sonya Holt rants at the camera screaming, “white lives matter” and then “white lives are better.” Jam Press A Tennessee woman caught on a viral video shouting racial and homophobic slurs at a Black Lives […]

Fox News commentator Juan Williams decried Tuesday the recent killing of an 8-year-old girl in Atlanta, and called on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Black Lives Matter to do […]

The weeks since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers have seen the U.S. confronting issues with race in ways the country never has before, including making some swift changes […]

EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. military services have agreed unanimously to recommend barring the display of the Confederate flag on military bases, on ships and in any public space, including barracks, multiple U.S. defense officials have told […]