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.

This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.

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