The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

“I call it organized chaos,” said Gary Walters, who choreographed several transfers of families in his 21 years as the White House chief usher. “It’s energizing,” said Ann ...

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Netflix’s Black Stories collection celebrates Black ... During the Civil War, white Southern farmer Newt Knight served in the Confederate Army as a medic. An abolitionist and pacifist, he ...

The embattled people of Ukraine and those forced abroad need $3.32 billion in lifesaving and sustained humanitarian assistance to help them cope as a fourth year of war looms after Russia’s full-scale ...

Volker Turk has become the first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Syria, where he met with the country’s de facto leader.

He was known as Hilarius in Latin and so, to modern ears, sounds like a funny man. So does Pope Hilarius, the only pontiff named after him, who governed the church from 461 till 468. On the ...

The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a report released on Tuesday that its latest data “reveals that 1,041,000 people, many displaced multiple times, are struggling ...

Clearly, Mr. Modi has been hoist with his own petard!” he added. “This reflects our weak macroeconomic fundamentals: stagnant wages, sluggish private investment, and a slowdown in consumption ...

Does the ban on smoking apply to all areas of everyday life? It relates in particular to enclosed public places (examples: cafes and restaurants). Smoking areas can be arranged. Smoking is also ...

KIM JONG-un Supreme leader of North Korea in 2013. Picture: Alamy "That’s way more than the 312lbs the average person poops in a year, so merchants can make a fortune buying and selling it on the ...