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South Africa reclaims ancestors taken in colonial-era genocide
2+ week, 4+ day ago (781+ words) The return of the bones of 63 Khoisan people, held between 1868 and 1924 for race-based scientific research, to their native South Africa has reignited discussion over colonialism's "racist" and "genocidal" practices. Considered Africa's oldest Indigenous people, the Khoisan today primarily live in…...
Half of All Rural Counties Are Losing Population. What Is Contributing to Those Declines?
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (449+ words) After writing recently about how population growth in rural America is uneven, I got an invitation from Eastern Standard, a weekly public affairs radio program out of WEKU, to talk specifically about population change in Appalachian Kentucky." The region tells…...
Liberia: Grand Kru Community Reclaims Identity With Name Change
20+ hour, 27+ min ago (465+ words) The Nimeah Community in Electoral District #1, Grand Kru County, has officially reclaimed its cultural identity through a landmark decision to rename Andrewville and Wilsonville as Nimeah Plantation and Nimeah Beach, in what residents describe as a historic restoration of heritage…...
South Africa returns stolen human remains and sacred emblem to Zimbabwe
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (457+ words) Coffins covered with Zimbabwean flags containing the remains of bodies of Zimbabweans, taken during colonial times. South Africa on Tuesday handed back to Zimbabwe ancestral human remains and a centuries-old stone carving of its sacred national emblem, the Zimbabwe bird,…...
Historian takes issue with Church of England's slavery reparations plans
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (753+ words) Professor Richard Dale, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, has said that the Church of England's plan to pay "100 million in slavery reparations is based on "deeply flawed" historical analysis. More than three years ago the Church Commissioners published…...
TV6 Investigates: UP Population growth and decline
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (780+ words) UPPER PENINSULA, Mich. (WLUC) - We now know the most recent U. P. population numbers from the U. S. Census. Between 2021 and 2025, Houghton, Iron, Keweenaw, Mackinac, Marquette, and Schoolcraft Counties all saw population increases ranging from 0. 16 percent to 0. 74 percent. Luce County saw the highest growth…...
Zimbabwe welcomes home looted sculpture, ancestral remains from South Africa
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (277+ words) HARARE, April 15 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe on Wednesday welcomed the return of a centuries-old "Zimbabwe Bird" stone sculpture and eight ancestral remains from South Africa, ending over a century of displacement dating back to the colonial era. Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa presided…...
Ramharack's Wismar Massacre book invites diaspora to engage with the past
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (83+ words) frequencynews. ca Ramharack's Wismar Massacre book invites diaspora to engage with the past " A significant new work on Guyana's history and memory arrives in the GTA this May, as Dr Baytoram Ramharack launches The Wismar Massacre: A Case of Ethnic…...
S. Africa returns stolen human remains, sacred carving to Zimbabwe
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (486+ words) Zimbabwe birds are the country's national emblem, depicted on banknotes, coins and the national flag The return of the Zimbabwe bird carving is part of a worldwide push for artefacts looted from African countries during the colonial era to be…...
South Africa returns looted historic sculpture, human remains to Zimbabwe
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (373+ words) Xinhua 15 Apr 2026, 18: 15 GMT+ CAPE TOWN, April 15 (Xinhua) -- South Africa has formally handed back to Zimbabwe a centuries-old stone sculpture of its sacred national emblem, the Zimbabwe Bird, along with ancestral human remains. The handover ceremony, presided over by South African…...