Media Coverage

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the suit, filed in 2020 by a trio of survivors, on June 12. An estimated 300 Black Americans were killed when a white mob razed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Only two known survivors—Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle...

Haiti’s transitional council appointed a new cabinet on June 11, marking the final step in rebuilding the government that will lead a country under siege by gangs. Haiti struggles with gangs that control at least 80 percent of the capital of Port-au-Prince. It is preparing for the UN-backed...

Large protests calling on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign have extended into a second day following a demonstration on June 9. Following a rally featuring thousands and an overnight vigil in pouring rain, hundreds of protesters rallied in front of Armenia’s parliament in Yerevan on...

Colombia's government and the Segunda Marquetalia armed group said in a joint document they will begin peace talks on June 24 in Caracas, Venezuela. Segunda Marquetalia is a dissident faction of the now-demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Its leaders initially agreed to a 2016...

A commission in Alameda County, California, designed to study anti-Black racism and come up with a plan to compensate harmed residents was expected to complete its work by this July. Instead, it has hardly started. Created in March 2023, the 15-member body is now asking for two more years and $5...

A conservative activist group filed a class action lawsuit against a reparations program in Evanston, Illinois, claiming the initiative is unconstitutional because qualification for the program is based on an applicant’s race. In 2021, Evanston became the first city in the U.S. to implement a...

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor appealed on June 11 for information and evidence of atrocities in Sudan, saying his ongoing investigation “seems to disclose an organized, systematic and a profound attack on human dignity.” ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan released a video...

Five years after a national inquiry in Canada delivered more than 200 recommendations aimed at protecting Indigenous women and girls from going missing or being murdered, former commissioners say there’s been too little systemic change across the country. The final report of the National Inquiry...

Amid the escalating violence unfolding in Sudan, activists are remembering crucial flashpoints of resistance during the pro-democracy protests in Khartoum on June 3, 2019. Before former President Omaral-Bashir was overthrown in a military coup, a civilian-led movement had levied consistent demands...

In the wake of inaugurating a new president, the Taiwanese people are revisiting the ongoing debate over how to remember the legacy of former authoritarian ruler Chiang Kai-Shek. In a recent statement on June 3, the Taiwan Association for Truth and Reconciliation urged the government to take...