Eight years after President Donald Trump's first travel ban largely targeted majority-Muslim countries, many Arab Americans say his new ban is motivated by bias.

The owner of an Omaha food packaging company says his business has been unfairly hamstrung by Tuesday's raid carried out by federal immigration officials.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public schools.

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

Los Angeles residents and experts say that the National Guard's presence in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests is reminiscent of a long-standing dynamic in the state and around the country.

If President Donald Trump's budget proposal wins final congressional approval, funding will be slashed for tribal colleges and universities.

Trailblazing ballerina Misty Copeland has decided to move on to what she calls “the next stage” in her career.

The New Jersey gubernatorial primary has emerged as a crucial test for Democrats seeking to regain Latino support nationally.

Police made a handful of arrests on the second night of the curfew in downtown Los Angeles as mayors urged the Trump administration to withdraw the military and stop the immigration raids.

Six decades after the federal government ordered Concordia Parish to desegregate its schools, the district remains racially divided.

President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops despite the governor’s objections to Los Angeles, where protests led to clashes between immigration authorities and demonstrators.

A criminal case in Alaska involving nearly a dozen people born in American Samoa is highlighting concerns about birthright citizenship and voting by people who are not U.S. citizens, issues that have been prominent in the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term.

HBO’s new bio series “Chespirito: Not Really on Purpose” or “Sin Querer Queriendo” has been received with delight by many fans in the U.S. and Latin America who grew up watching Roberto Gómez Bolaños.

Federal immigration authorities say they arrested 44 people Friday across Los Angeles.

Representation of many of the world’s faiths and spiritual traditions has been minimal to nonexistent in the mainstream comics universe.

Representation of many of the world's faiths and spiritual traditions has been minimal to nonexistent in the mainstream comics universe.

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene.

New York education officials have refused to rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding.

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

New Zealand legislators have voted to enact record suspensions from Parliament for three lawmakers who performed a Māori haka to protest a proposed law.

Hugo Aguilar campaigned for Mexico’s Supreme Court with the simple message that he would finally give Indigenous Mexicans a voice at one of the highest levels of government.

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials.

Though there have been progressive, representative changes with Muslim entertainers like Mo Amer of "Mo," Kumail Nanjiani, and Hassan Minhaj, groups like MPAC Hollywood Bureau continue pushing for more authenticity and inclusion in the industry.

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies.

Kara Young’s work in the play “Purpose” has earned her a Tony Award nomination and a chance to make history.

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka has sued New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor over his arrest outside a federal immigration detention facility on a trespassing charge, saying the Trump-appointed attorney had pursued the case out of political spite.

University boards appointed by the Texas governor soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs.

Renée Victor has died at 86.

A list of more than 500 “sanctuary jurisdictions” no longer appears in the Department of Homeland Security’s website after receiving criticism for including localities that have actively supported the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies.

Tulsa’s new mayor on Sunday proposed a $100 million private trust as part of a reparations plan to give descendants of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre scholarships and housing help.

Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China.

Unlike the efforts made to raise awareness of Black history in the United States, acknowledging the presence of Black people in Mexico has received little support.

President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot.

A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and displayed on the floor of an art gallery in the city of Nelson has been removed from display after protests.

Cambodian restaurants are not in every U.S. city the way Chinese and Japanese ones are.

It didn’t occur to Ben Wang right away that in taking on “Karate Kid: Legends,” he’d be the franchise’s first Asian American “Kid.”.

The Trump administration has revoked permission for a 4-year-old Mexican girl who receives lifesaving medical care from a California hospital to stay in the country, her family says.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.

Presley Chweneyagae, the South African actor who gained international recognition for his leading role in the 2005 film Tsotsi,has died.

Minneapolis has changed, slowly, since a city police officer murdered George Floyd on Memorial Day in 2020.

Members of different LGBTQ and transgender communities are descending on the nation's capital with plans for celebrations, parades, concerts and more.

Former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo says he wishes he had moved faster to change the culture of his department before the murder of George Floyd, which happened five years ago Sunday.

Almost four dozen Venezuelan workers who had temporary protected status have been put on leave by Disney after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip them of legal protections.

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide was awarded Spain’s 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for the Arts.

Five years after the murder of George Floyd, the ripple effects of that summer are still being felt to this day.

In 2020, Black Lives Matter street murals appeared in cities across the U.S. following the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued the New York Times over the newspaper's reporting on the community's introduction to the internet.

As authorities scour New Orleans for escapees from a jailbreak, they're also confronting a history of mistrust in law enforcement and the criminal justice system.

A civil court in Peru has issued a landmark ruling recognizing the territorial rights of the Kichwa people within a protected area of the Amazon.

The Wichita Tribe and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California filed a lawsuit Thursday saying the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were systematically abused.

The number of white nationalist, hate and anti-government groups around the U.S. dropped slightly in 2024, not because of any shrinking influence but rather the opposite.

A Louisiana bill that would have carved out a path for incarcerated people convicted by now-banned split juries to ask for a new trial has failed.

Investigators in Tennessee say a fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers’ strike which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis was intentionally set.

A new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds that as colleges and universities pull back on diversity practices, young Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are overwhelmingly against cutting federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education, and deporting students involved in protest activity on campus.

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil rights investigation into hiring practices at the city of Chicago in response to comments made by Mayor Brandon Johnson at a church Sunday, praising the number of and naming Black people in top positions in his administration.

The haka, a chanting dance of challenge, is sacred to New Zealand’s Māori people but it’s become a beloved cultural institution among New Zealanders of all races.

As a fan, Shaun Horne is all about Detroit’s professional sports teams.

New York’s governor has formally apologized for the “atrocities” she says were committed at an upstate boarding school where Native American youths were forcibly separated from their families and forced to assimilate into American society.

A husband and wife are on trial this week in federal court in Denver over what federal prosecutors have said was a stunt to help elect the first Black mayor of Colorado Springs.

Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who have been living in eastern Congo since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda have been repatriated.

The board of Florida’s only public historically Black university has chosen a lobbyist with ties to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to be the school’s next president, alarming students, faculty and alumni who are outraged by the governor’s efforts to restrict the teaching of African American history and ban public colleges from using taxpayer money on diversity programs.

State efforts to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are accelerating during Donald Trump's second term.

An audit of Maryland autopsies has uncovered at least 36 in-custody police deaths that should have been considered homicides.

Actor Daniel Dae Kim more than made the nominee list for the Tony Awards.

Britain's prime minister says his government is talking with several countries to host rejected asylum seekers as they wait to be deported.

A new poll suggests that while the overall concept of diversity, equity and inclusion is divisive, some of the DEI initiatives being affected by the Trump administration’s policies are less controversial.

Private citizens in seven states no longer have a legal path to sue under a key section of the Voting Rights Act, under a federal appeals court ruling.

CBS' new soap opera “Beyond the Gates” has been renewed for a second season.

A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber.

Arizona’s governor has signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state.

A U.S. budget airline has begun making deportation flights out of an Arizona airport, an unusual and controversial move for a company that depends heavily on its consumer brand.

The federal agency tasked with protecting workers’ civil rights has moved to terminate a New York administrative judge who has resisted compliance with President Donald Trump’s directives for the agency.

The Trump administration has brought a small group of white South Africans to the United States as refugees in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort.

An immigration detention center in New Jersey is at the center of tensions between three congressional Democrats and the Trump administration after the arrest of Newark’s mayor outside the facility.

Bobby Gumpright was in the throws of addiction 25 years ago when he fabricated a story that he had been robbed at gunpoint by a Black man.

The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort.

Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world.

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity.

Recruiting women into construction and manufacturing has for years been a painstaking but broadly popular effort to address persistent labor shortages.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas says the U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state’s largest mosques near Dallas.

Supporters of a measure to create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery in Maryland have rallied next to the Capitol and the governor’s residence to urge Gov. Wes Moore to sign the legislation.

The Minnesota Timberwolves say they are investigating if a fan directed racially charged comments toward Golden State’s Draymond Green during the fourth quarter of a playoff game between the teams on Thursday.

A new poll shows a majority of U.S. adults disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of issues related to colleges and universities, as his Republican administration ramps up threats to cut federal funding unless schools comply with his political agenda.

Two advocacy groups for migrants have filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents.

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on college campuses didn’t stop minority students at the University of Kentucky from staging their own celebration.

A judge has declared a mistrial after the jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in the second-degree murder trial of a Michigan police officer who shot a Black man following a traffic stop in 2022.

After three former Memphis police officers were acquitted in the beating death of Tyre Nichols, community and civil rights leaders are expressing outrage over another disappointment in the long push for police reform.

The acquittal of three former Memphis police officers of state charges in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols is the latest development in a case that prompted renewed calls for police reforms in the U.S. and led to a quest for justice by his family that persists more than two years after the 29-year-old Black man’s death.

A video showing a Minnesota woman at a playground admitting to using a racist slur against a Black child has garnered millions of views.

Three former Memphis officers have been acquitted of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic stop.

Dandyism was at the heart of Monday’s Met Gala, where many of the world’s most famous and influential tastemakers donned their luxury best to kick off the “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” exhibit.

The family of a U.S. airman who was killed by a Florida sheriff’s deputy inside his own home in 2024 has sued the deputy, the sheriff and the owner of the airman's apartment complex.

Once inside the Met Gala Monday evening, guests passed under a slew of flower petals suspended from the ceiling.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a federal lawsuit against a former Florida sheriff’s deputy and others in the May 2024 shooting death of 23-year-old U.S. Senior Airman Roger Fortson.

Fashion’s biggest night of they year is underway as stars gather for the Met Gala on Monday in rainy Manhattan.

Jurors are expected to begin deliberating Tuesday in the trial of three former Memphis police officers charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of Tyre Nichols in January 2023.

The European Union is launching a drive to attract scientists and researchers with offers of grants and new policy plans.

Cinco de Mayo festivities are taking place across the U.S. with music, tacos and tequila flowing.