The debate over reparations highlights the dual purpose of the holiday: celebrating emancipation but also demanding accountability for historical and present wrongs.

One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.

A report deemed the camouflage pattern inappropriate for a country that is only 2.1 percent forest.

Radical nationalists have infiltrated the country’s police and politics.

Perhaps France should help Haiti, its former colony, rebuild the cathedral lost in the 2010 earthquake.