
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilians could make history this month by electing Marina Silva, the daughter of impoverished rubber tappers from the Amazon, as their first black president.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilians could make history this month by electing Marina Silva, the daughter of impoverished rubber tappers from the Amazon, as their first black president.
A record number of African-American candidates are running for congressional seats in 2014.
CAP-HAÏTIEN, Haiti — History arrived at 11:42 a.m. — one hour and 44 minutes after takeoff from Miami International Airport and 62 years after the first stone was laid for Haiti’s second international airport.
Global income inequality has returned to levels recorded in the 1820s—when the Industrial Revolution produced sizable wealth gaps between the rich and poor
President Barack Obama listens while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a statement to the press after a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House Sept. 30, 2014.
From a new Brookings Institute analysis by fellow Jonathan Rothwell released yesterday.
Above: Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street after a demonstration in Ferguson on August 17.
Americans are so accustomed to speaking about civil rights as an historical era
General view of the Island of Gorée, Senegal, which was from the 15th to the 19th century, the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast.
Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson on Thursday issued a video apology to the family of Michael Brown…
First shipment of the ramped-up U.S. military response to Ebola arriving in Liberia. (Credit: US Army Africa/CC-BY-2.0)
Recent developments in Latin America continue that region’s remarkable surge toward democracy and socialism…