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Ever since the United States government’s unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American “40 acres and a mule” after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nation’s legacies of slavery. Land-based reparations are also a form of
The Met Gala’s reputation as fashion’s biggest night is well-deserved. For decades, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has opened its blockbuster spring exhibition with a benefit that has since morphed into a global spectacle all its own. Millions of people around the world anticipate the first Monday of May to see how their […]
Vehicles outside a Land Rover dealership in Tucson, Arizona, US, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images British carmaker Jaguar Land Rover said it will pause U.S. shipments for a month as it assesses the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on vehicle imports. It comes as disruption from the […]
The West Bank-based film No Other Land has won this year’s best documentary feature Oscar. The film, which is made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, won out against competition from Black Box Diaries, Porcelain War and Sugarcane . . .
It’s become known as the Valentine’s Day massacre. On 14 February, tens of thousands of civil servants were fired, as the Trump administration hacked away indiscriminately at the federal government. Among them, roughly 3,400 from the US Forest Service, 2,300 at the Department of Interior, including 1,000 from the National Parks Service, and thousands more […]
Two military jets landed in Guatemala City on Friday carrying deported migrants from Tucson, Ariz., and El Paso, according to local migration authorities and the American Embassy in Guatemala. Guatemala appears to be one of first countries to have struck an agreement with the United States to receive deported citizens transported on U.S. Air Force […]
US President Biden’s decision to provide antipersonnel mines comes after Ukraine fired ATACMS missiles into Russia. US President Joe Biden has approved providing antipersonnel land mines to Ukraine in what has been seen as another policy reversal on weapons provided to Kyiv by the outgoing United States administration, according to reports. The US expects Ukraine […]
Ajo, Arizona — The search began with a prayer in the early morning hours, as the sun emerged from the mountains that adorn this picturesque, yet often deadly, landscape near the U.S.-Mexico border. It was the third search that a grassroots group of volunteers known as the Armadillos had embarked on this summer with the […]
COLOMA, Calif. — In a tiny town where the California gold rush began, Black families are seeking restitution for land that was taken from their ancestors to make way for a state park now frequented by fourth graders learning about the state’s history. Their efforts in Coloma, a town of around 300 people that’s located […]
After another Chinese spacecraft touched down on the lunar surface earlier this month, this time to retrieve samples from the moon’s far side, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson congratulated a country that is challenging the United States’ long-held dominance in space. He said he was impressed with its fourth successful moon landing.