Over the past few weeks, calls to abolish police departments and dramatically rethink what community law enforcement might look like have been vaulted from a niche — albeit longstanding — issue within ...

President Obama continued to make news from abroad Sunday morning, taking questions from reporters as he wrapped up meetings with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Madrid. After deflecting ...

Hundreds of people told the Portland City Council during an hours-long budget hearing Wednesday to make drastic cuts to the city’s police force or dismantle it altogether. Calls to defund and break up ...

Nicole Marroquin’s protest posters are a bit more elaborate than most homemade signs one might spot at a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Rather than recycled cardboards bearing spray-painted slogans ...

Editor’s note: The following two letters are in reaction to the Archdiocese of Newark’s announcement earlier this month that in the fall St. Augustine School in Union City, which celebrated its 125th ...

Walking into the Black Abolition Movement for the Mind (BAM) center in Waukegan, people will see two racks of clothing, a line of computer terminals, artwork, a piano, an electrician’s workbench, a ...

LOS ANGELES — While Jane Austen admirers savor the wit and romance of “Pride and Prejudice” and her other enduring novels, scholars ferret out details of Austen’s life and times, including a family ...

Linda Hirshman is a historian of social movements. Her previous books document the struggle for gay rights, against sexual harassment, and for labor reform. But her most recent book, “The Color of ...

On July 3, U.N. delegates and NGO representatives from around the world gathered at the U.N. Headquarters in New York for an invigorating conference entitled “Moving Away From the Death Penalty - ...

GEO, the umbrella organisation for the state government employees, on Saturday welcomed the Tamil Nadu Assured Pension Scheme ...

Throughout the country, Greek life on college campuses has come under fire due to allegations of discriminatory behavior. Although the criticism has varied, from racist practices to rampant sexism, ...