By Edith M. Lederer
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS » A U.N. investigator says contemporary forms of slavery are widely practiced around the world, including forced labor for China’s Uyghur minority, bonded labor for the lowest caste Dalits in South Asia, and domestic servitude in Gulf countri...
“It’s good busıness to be kind”
Inmate-turned-developer breaking ground in RiNo says he’s putting kindness over profits
By Elizabeth Hernandez The Denver Post In his younger years, 66-year-old Bernard Hurley spent $120 a month at the prison canteen. Last month, the Denver inmate-turned-developer d...
By Drew Costley
The Associated Press
The White House’s top official on environmental justice is stepping down a year after President Joe Biden took office with an ambitious plan to help disadvantaged communities and overhaul policies that historically have hurt them.
The departure Friday of Cecil...
By Carla K. Johnson
The Associated Press
The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.
Together, the United States, the Europe...
\“I could not have predicted this,” says Vernice Miller-Travis, who gathered data for a seminal 1987 study, “Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States.By Agya K. Aning
August 1, 2021
Decades after emerging from the broader civil rights movement, setting itself apart from traditional ...
