A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognized as a legal person after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being.

Target’s rollback on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives is raising questions about the retail giant’s philanthropic commitment to fighting racial disparities and promoting progressive values in liberal Minneapolis, where it is based, and beyond.

Voters in California and Texas affiliated with a Democratic group want to intervene in a lawsuit filed by four Republican state attorneys general.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys are battling in court over whether a former district attorney tried to protect the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in 2020.

Despite legally migrating to the U.S. under the country’s Temporary Protected Status program, many of the thousands of Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are fearful President Donald Trump’s promised migration crackdown will soon include them.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States.

About two-thirds of fast food and counter workers in the U.S. are women, many supporting their families on those wages.

Discount store chain Target says it’s joining rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back corporate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Federal agencies, employees and contractors are trying to process how President Donald Trump’s sweeping anti-DEI executive order will upend their work.

Netflix’s “Bling Empire: New York” cast member Lynn Ban has died at age 51.

Numerous faith leaders across the U.S. say the immigration crackdown launched by President Donald Trump’s new administration has sown fear within their migrant-friendly congregations.

Costco has claimed victory in pushing back on a shareholder proposal that urges the wholesale club operator to conduct an evaluation of any business risks posed by its diversity, equity and inclusion practices.

Charles Phan, the San Francisco chef credited as an innovator for bringing Vietnamese food to fine dining at his Slanted Door restaurant, has died at age 62.

The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps after the military was desegregated in the 1940s has died.

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House website.

As President Donald Trump cracks down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally, some families are wondering if it is safe to send their children to school.

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to end affirmative action in federal contracting and is directing that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off.

A judge is dismissing some of the more than 200 potential jurors summoned for the trial of a prosecutor accused of meddling with the investigation of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery.

President Donald Trump’s inaugural benediction on the federal holiday that celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. included an homage to the civil rights leader’s legacy.

President Donald Trump's first tasks as he takes office include signing executive orders to roll back protections for transgender people and end federal government diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations have kicked off at King's former congregation in Atlanta with a 70-member choir's rendition of Hallelujah and stern words from his youngest daughter warning against anti-woke rhetoric.

A meeting between the two leaders in ethnically divided Cyprus has ended without an agreement.

Donald Trump has promised sweeping actions in his second administration.

Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and advocating for his vision of a just, nonviolent society will occur the same day as Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration.

The leaders of two previously rival Kurdish groups have met in northern Iraq in an apparent step toward reconciliation at a time when the political upheaval in Syria has left Kurds in the region facing an uncertain future.

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Immigration is a top issue many Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders want the federal government to focus on this year, according to a new poll.

José “Cha Cha” Jiménez, a prominent civil rights and liberation movement figure and founder of the Young Lords in Chicago and Co-Founder of the Rainbow Coalition, has died.

A Florida state lawmaker has filed a bill that would ban some of the state’s public colleges and universities from admitting students who are in the country without legal permission.

A judge says the New Orleans Police Department can begin the process of ending longstanding federal oversight.

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies.

The first-ever U.S. Justice Department review of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre finds there is no longer an avenue to bring a criminal case in association with the attack by a white mob on a thriving Black district.

The District of Columbia is suing the federal government over pollution in the Anacostia River, hoping it will lead to a cleanup of the urban waterway.

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy of slavery.

The former U.S. Marine acquitted of criminal charges in the death of a man on a New York City subway train is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the victim’s father.

The family of a Air Force contractor who was killed when she walked into a rotating drone propeller has filed a lawsuit against her company, Sumaria Systems LLC, claiming her trainer subjected her to gender and racial discrimination that ultimately put her in harm's way and led to her death.

As the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, his daughter is urging people to really focus on his work throughout the next year, rather than just paying him tribute for a day.

In college basketball, the scene of an African-American coach cutting down nets to celebrate a national title is nothing new.

McDonald’s is ending some of its diversity practices, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that outlawed affirmative action in college admissions.

It’s vastly different to work as an Asian actor in North American hubs such as Toronto, Los Angeles and New York — than in those in Asia, including Hong Kong and Taipei.

The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups.

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.”.

A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith.

Thirty years after Florida required schools to teach African American history, how the subject is taught remains inconsistent across Florida classrooms, a review by The Associated Press has found.

An Indigenous community in Peru has won the latest stage of a legal battle to reclaim lost rainforests.

The chance to rub shoulders with quarterback Josh Allen and broaden the Buffalo Bills’ reach into Toronto wasn’t the only thing on the minds of former NBA stars Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady and soccer’s Jozy Altidore in purchasing a minority share of the franchise.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a new policy that will allow beneficiaries of land taken from white people under controversial land reforms to sell it and to be able to borrow from banks using it as collateral.

Italy’s deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, is sounding defiant as he awaits a verdict in Sicily for preventing some 100 migrants from disembarking a rescue boat in 2019 when he was interior minister.

A Kansas official who’s an informal adviser to President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team on immigration issues doesn’t expect mass deportations to prompt arrests of migrants at sensitive locations such as schools and churches.

Police say over a dozen people tied up and terrorized a man and woman at a crime-riddled suburban Denver apartment in what's being described as an apparent gang-related attack on two Venezuelan immigrants.

A judge has granted permission to lawyers for Derek Chauvin to have samples from George Floyd examined as part of the former Minneapolis police officer’s efforts to challenge his conviction on a federal civil rights charge stemming from Floyd’s death in 2020.

Indonesia's mining industry is rapidly expanding on demand for the minerals needed to help power the global energy transition, like nickel, cobalt and bauxite.

It's about as American an idea as it gets -the hunger to make your own path, to find your own way, make your voice heard.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has met with President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar."

The African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of largest Black Protestant denominations in the world, has been wrestling with whether to change a policy that threatens to punish any of its clergy who recognize same-sex marriages.

Two men have been freed after their convictions were overturned in a 2009 double homicide whose investigation was overseen by a discredited Kansas City, Kansas, police detective.

A former Georgia district attorney charged with interfering in the police investigation of the 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery has made her first court appearance more than three years after being indicted.

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson before the end of the Civil War.

The poet, author, educator and public speaker Nikki Giovanni has died at 81.

The great-granddaughter of the last Alaska Native chief of a remote island in the Bering Sea believes Japan should pay more restitution for what its soldiers did to the residents of Attu Island during World War II.

President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school site in Pennsylvania to commemorate the resilience of tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and similar abusive institutions.

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming.

The judge overseeing the trial of a man accused of using a deadly chokehold on an unruly subway passenger has dismissed the top charge in the case at the request of prosecutors, allowing the jury to consider a lesser count after the panel indicated it was deadlocked on whether Daniel Penny was guilty of manslaughter.

Democrats in Michigan are pressing to pass reproductive health care legislation before the party loses its majority with the new legislative session next year.

A U.S. Department of Justice investigation found that the Memphis Police Department committed a host of civil rights violations, including using excessive force, making illegal traffic stops and disproportionately targeting Black people in the majority Black city.

The father of the victim in the fatal New York City subway chokehold case has sued defendant Daniel Penny as a Manhattan jury continues deliberating.

Memphis’ mayor is pushing back against the need for a Justice Department deal to enact reforms in light of the scathing findings of an investigation into the Memphis Police Department.

The Memphis Police Department uses excessive force and discriminates against Black people, according to the findings of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation launched after the beating death of Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop in 2023.

Jurors have asked to review police and bystander video at the heart of the New York City chokehold manslaughter case against Daniel Penny.

The District of Columbia is alleging in a lawsuit that Amazon secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents of two predominantly Black neighborhoods in the city.

Jurors have started deliberating in the trial of a military veteran charged with using a fatal chokehold to subdue a man whose behavior was alarming passengers on a New York subway train.

Years after COVID-19 disrupted American schools, nearly every state is still struggling with attendance.

Brown University has transferred ownership of a portion of its land in Bristol, Rhode Island to a preservation trust established by the Pokanoket Indian Tribe.

California lawmakers are set to consider a bill that would require the state's public universities to give admission priority to the descendants of slaves.

Authorities say a white ex-police detective in Kansas accused of sexually assaulting Black women has died in an apparent suicide at his home.

Closing arguments are set to wrap up Tuesday in the trial of a Marine veteran charged with recklessly choking to death an irate homeless man on a New York subway train.

Young men shifted toward Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election in a change from recent years, when most young male voters backed the Democratic candidate.

The Black pastor of a multiethnic congregation in Anaheim, California, has started a string orchestra for young musicians of color.

The Connecticut NAACP says that former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner has died.

When Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigned in North Carolina, both candidates courted a state-recognized tribe there whose 55,000 members could have helped tip the swing state.

Democrat Derek Tran has defeated two-term Republican U.S. Rep. Michelle Steel in a Southern California House district that was specifically drawn to give Asian Americans a stronger voice on Capitol Hill.

A white supremacist prison gang leader is accused in the attempted homicide of two officers at the California State Prison in Sacramento.

The Border Patrol has been quickly growing its ranks of chaplains to help with mounting distress.

President-elect Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on Mexico and Canada as he seeks to portray them as responsible for illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

Walmart’s sweeping rollback of its diversity policies is the strongest indication yet of a profound shift taking hold at U.S. companies that are re-evaluating the legal and political risks associated with bold programs to bolster historically underrepresented groups in business.

President-elect Donald Trump vigorously campaigned against diversity and inclusion efforts in business and government.

Donald Trump's victory has dismayed many politically engaged Black women, and they're reassessing their enthusiasm for politics and organizing.

Mississippi's practice of removing voting rights for certain felonies is cruel and unusual.

What is now St_ Louis was once home to over 100 human-made mounds constructed by Native Americans — so many that St_ Louis became known as “Mound City.”.

A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in public has taken effect, with police officers arresting a man for breaking the law three minutes later.

The family of a man shot and killed by a Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own has been awarded nearly $100 million in a federal civil trial.

A study of access to polls during elections has found systemic barriers to voting on tribal lands contribute to substantial disparities in turnout.

As tens of thousands of marchers thronged the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, the column of people, flags aloft, had the air of a festival or a parade rather than a protest.

There’s no escaping the layers of meta around the new Hulu series “Interior Chinatown.”.

Testimony is continuing in the trial of the man accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

Police say 42,000 people have arrived at New Zealand's Parliament in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month.