Your Excellency Mohammed Ould Ghazouani, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and Chairperson of the African Union; ...

Weather-induced disasters that are the result of climate change are increasingly affecting societies. One area that hasn't been explored much yet is how extreme weather events are creating conditions ...

Extreme weather events such as flooding, drought, wildfires, water scarcity and rise in sea levels driven by climate change ...

Trump recently suspended asylum claims in the U.S. and has taken other steps that could make winning existing cases more ...

But how did the slave trade shape the art market in the Netherlands? And how is it reflected in the paintings of the time? This is the subject of a new book called Slavery and the Invention of ...

Harvard University on Thursday laid off the staff of its Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program and outsourced the project, which is part of a $100 million initiative to identify the direct ...

by artists meditating on the impact of slavery on Black lives, past and present. On view, for example, is a 2023 portrait of Marème Diarra—a Malian woman formerly enslaved in Mauritania in the ...

Harvard transferred its enslavement identification program to American Ancestors, the group leading the 10 Million Names project. On Thursday, Jan. 23, Harvard University transferred the research ...

Harvard University laid off the staff members contributing to the research component of its Slavery Remembrance Program on Thursday. The program is part of the $100 million Harvard and the Legacy ...

In 1868, constitutional amendments ended chattel slavery, established citizenship to newly freed Black people, and granted equal protection under the law. The Fourteenth Amendment, one of these ...