The first subdivision built for middle- and upper-class Black residents of New Orleans — and one of the first in the nation — is now on the National Register of Historic Places

The president of Turkey has formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque, hours after a high court annulled a 1934 decision that had made the religious landmark a museum

Brazil’s government has proposed that global asset-managers adopt protected areas in the Amazon rainforest in order to curb illegal deforestation ahead of the season farmers traditionally use fire to clear land and brush

Opposition to hate crimes legislation in Georgia is building from people previously in favor of it after Republicans in the state Senate added police as a protected class

Six-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is to set up a commission to increase diversity in motorsport

The coronavirus pandemic has prevented druids, pagans and partygoers from watching the sun rise at Stonehenge to mark the summer solstice

President Donald Trump says he will win the November election in part because of a “silent majority” of voters who are worried about sweeping cultural changes

Democratic members of Nevada’s congressional delegation are renewing a proposal to remove a statue of former Nevada Sen_ Patrick McCarran from the U_S_ Capitol’s Statuary Hall, saying that he left a “legacy of racism, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia.”

Americans have marked Juneteenth with new urgency amid protests demanding racial justice

The Rev. Al Sharpton took on President Donald Trump directly while speaking before several hundred people gathered at the site of the white-on-Black rampage 99 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma