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This Black History Month, we recognize the individual and collective efforts of the long line of Black scholars, organizers, and activists who have championed the fight for racial justice. As…

The world in 2021 continued to roil with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, intensifying competition between the world’s major powers, questions of trust inside many of the world’s leading democracies, and…

Powerful storms, wildfires, heat waves and other extreme climate-related events are projected to become more common and affect more people. According to a recent Washington Post analysis, nearly a third of Americans live in a county…

Similar to past elections, religion played an important role in the 2020 U.S. presidential contest: Republican candidate Donald Trump continued to garner strong support from White evangelical Protestants, while Black Protestants…

In Israel, there is an ongoing push to deport African Hebrew Israelites. The Times of Israel reported that the Interior ministry’s Population and Immigration Authority has sent letters to 51…

Segregation on the basis of race or ethnicity is one of the most enduring and pervasive inequities in US public education. Public school segregation has its roots in government-backed racist…

The Interior Minister has been actively discriminating against this community, and against African American Jews in general Last Wednesday, 50 members of the African Hebrew community in Dimona received letters…

The African-American group first came to Israel in the late 1960s, but now about 100 of them may have to return to the United States. ‘It’s no secret that those…

It’s time to resurrect a global anti-fascist consensus to name, shame, and throw these guys out of the game. After four years of shock, confusion, and paralysis, the United States…

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a substantial threat to U.S. elections, as described in previous reports by the Center for American Progress. Unless officials make significant changes to state election systems before November, Americans who…