Syria will be fully reconnected to the Swift international payment system “in a matter of weeks”, the country’s new central bank governor said, relinking the country to the global economy after 14 ...

Foster: The acquittals of three former Memphis policemen in Tyre Nichols' murder is a reminder that policing is inherently racist and oppressive.

As a Black American family from the Northeast with ancestry ... we don’t know for sure until he’s revealed and what his intentions are. During the Reconstruction Era, most Chinese immigrants came from ...

The call is coming from the White House In the latest assault on black history, President Trump targeted ... and two waves of federal civil rights legislation. The Reconstruction Era enshrined ...

Reconstruction ... and the 15th Amendment granted Black men the right to vote. But progress didn’t come without pushback. The South fought back with Black Codes and, eventually, Jim Crow ...

She said in 1865, as much as half of Huntsville's population was Black. Highlighting these sights showcases their often-overlooked contributions in the Reconstruction era. "Their facades ... with ...

At that time, the Alabama Legislature had established codes that allowed police to arrest Black people for vagrancy ... a light it brings a lens to that era that we don’t hear about," Thompson ...

Sweeping measures have quickly followed: sealing the border, canceling asylum appointments, attempting to end birthright citizenship, and revoking Biden-era humanitarian parole programs.

The time, heralded as a form of “abolition democracy” by Du Bois, represented an era where ... hostilities to Reconstruction followed along with institutionalized Black Codes and the eventual ...

Getty file Share Chicago’s Black leaders celebrated Black history ... In his speech, Johnson declared the beginning of a “new reconstruction era,” referencing the period after the Civil ...

The Reconstruction era aimed to grant Black Americans rights ... there was immense regression, uh, with Black Codes. Uh, Johnson was not a part of the Southern aristocracy and wanted to make ...

The legal loophole led to a number of racist measures following the Reconstruction Era including “black codes” or petty offenses that led to forced labor when fines couldn’t be paid by Black citizens.