First contemporary findings on how the risk of arrest varies across race and gender Nearly half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males in the U.S. are…

By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (HCNN) — Haiti’s prime minister, Laurent Lamothe, said on Monday that the citizenship issue caused by a constitutional court ruling in the Dominican Republic…
By Robert Reich One of the worst epithets that can be leveled at a politician these days is to call him a “redistributionist.” Yet 2013 marked one of the biggest…

Tens of thousands of asylum seekers launched a three-day strike, demos outside embassies, and the largest refugee protest in the country’s history –

The fresh page of a new year—what a thrilling place to be. And to kick off 2014, Colorlines asked several community leaders to share their racial justice wishes for the year.

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — Haiti’s ambassador to Havana Jean Victor Généus said that Cuba, as pro-tempore chair of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)
Fellow Vincentians and Friends of St. Vincent and the Grenadines,
A Happy New Year to All! Please accept best wishes from the Embassy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for a blessed 2014. Ten days after the Christmas disaster in SVG, our relief efforts remain constant.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, Friday January 3, 2014, CMC – Prime Minister D. Ralph Gonslaves says the Christmas Eve extreme weather event has created two St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

A group of South American and Caribbean countries have adopted a common plan of action to eradicate hunger and poverty, designed with FAO support.

Controversy continues to brew here over ownership of the land under Kibera slum, one of Africa’s largest.

The civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart has returned home from prison after a federal judge ordered her compassionate release. Stewart is 74 years old and dying from late-stage breast cancer.

By George Packer
With the financial crisis and Barack Obama’s ascent to the Presidency, 2008 struck many observers—including this one—as reminiscent of the watershed election year 1932.