A Black transgender woman’s testimony helped ratify the 14th Amendment. Then conservatives began attacking her identity
Frances Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional ...
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Utica's Mother Lavender: Celebrating the Life and Legacy of a Beacon of Hope
As we celebrate influential individuals throughout Black History Month in the Mohawk Valley, we pay tribute to Ellen Elizabeth Lavender, affectionately known as Mother Lavender.
Ukraine’s Equation
Second, Ukraine and its allies have fortified their alliances. The United States and Europe have shown their commitment to ...
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Genocide Drove the Yazidi From Their Homeland. A Decade Later, Some Are Returning.
ISIS wrecked 80 percent of public infrastructure and 70 percent of civilian homes in Sinjar City and surrounding areas.
Hegseth’s Bruising 72-Hour Debut Overseas
In all, it was a bruising, 72-hour crash course in the geopolitical realities of a job that critics complain Mr. Hegseth, a ...
War in eastern Congo: Thousands seek refuge in Burundi
With people fleeing an escalating war between M23 rebels and Congolese government forces, the United Nations now fears a ...
Asha Degree disappeared in NC on Valentine’s Day 25 years ago. What do new clues mean?
O’Bryant Degree, second from right, walks with friends along North Carolina Highway 18 during a walk to commemorate the 25th ...
Middle East latest: Hamas says it will release 3 Israeli hostages as planned
The militant Hamas group says it will free three Israeli hostages as planned, in a reversal of its previous announcement and ...
Dispatch: Children reduced to skin and bones in war-torn Sudan’s forgotten famine
Some have sprouted brittle tufts of reddish hair and their orb-like stomachs protrude from beneath their filthy clothes – ...
Rwanda-backed rebels advance into eastern Congo's 2nd major city of Bukavu, residents say
Rwanda-backed rebels in eastern Congo have claimed that they have seized a second airport in the region following a days-long ...
Israel’s West Bank crackdown triggers a wave of displacement unseen in decades
FAR’A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of ...
‘Khartoum’ Review: Experimental Doc Poignantly Captures the Crisis in Sudan
A collective of Sudanese and British filmmakers collaborate with five residents from Khartoum to construct a kaleidoscopic ...