Social Justice

A bill before the state Legislature would ban encampments on college and university campuses. The bill’s principal author says it’s a reaction to last spring’s wave of protests related to the war between Israel and Hamas.

As Democrats in Washington struggle to find a unified approach to the Trump administration’s whirlwind of action in his first few months in office, protests have been sporadic and scattered.

For decades, a large collection of cassette tapes sat untouched in NAU’s archives. A team is now trying to unravel the mystery of the tapes’ origins — and racing to preserve their contents.

Authorities have confirmed the identity of human remains discovered last month in Gila County, and the victim was a San Carlos Apache teen who’d been missing since January.

New Deal Meal serves dozens of people each week and offers clothes, blankets, pet food and reusable containers for attendees to take additional meals. The club has faced weekly opposition from Tempe, including a misdemeanor citation for the group’s founder, Ron Tapscott, on Jan. 26.

There’s been a lot of conversation recently about monuments dedicated to Confederate leaders. But, this history professor has been looking into a different kind of monument.

House Bill 2281 would establish an alert system used in instances when an Indigenous person has gone missing amid unexplained or suspicious circumstances.

In the 1960s and '70s, Latino activists were fighting for equal rights, education and against police brutality and the Vietnam War. Documents newly released by the CIA confirm long-held suspicions that the federal government was monitoring their activities — sometimes even disrupting them.

The Interior Department identified 973 children who died in the care of the U.S. government during the 150-year federal Indian boarding school era. A yearlong investigation found three times as many deaths and nearly double the burial sites than previously reported by the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, launched by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

When ASU professor Dr. Neal Lester was an undergrad, he got assigned in a poetry class to write a paper interpreting the work of a famous poet. He picked Nikki Giovanni, the world-famous civil rights icon who passed away earlier this month.