Ogoni mobilize against oil extraction and environmental destruction

The High Court recognized the Meriam people's native title to Mer in the Torres Strait. The judgment rejected the legal treatment of Australia as land without prior owners and opened a wider route...

Armed attackers killed township residents in Boipatong during the transition from apartheid. The massacre intensified accusations about state responsibility and contributed to the breakdown of...

Ciskei forces fired on a mass march challenging Oupa Gqozo's regime and demanding free political activity. The killings demonstrated the danger posed by apartheid's homeland institutions during the...

During protests marking 500 years since Columbus's arrival in the Americas, demonstrators in San Cristóbal de las Casas toppled the statue of conquistador Diego de Mazariegos. The action challenged...

At Redfern Park, Prime Minister Paul Keating acknowledged non-Indigenous responsibility for dispossession and other harms inflicted on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The speech...

White extremist Janusz Waluś assassinated Chris Hani, a prominent anti-apartheid leader, outside his home. The killing generated widespread grief and anger during negotiations to end minority rule....

After racist abuse at Victoria Park, Aboriginal footballer Nicky Winmar lifted his St Kilda jersey and pointed to his skin. Photographs made the gesture a lasting assertion of Aboriginal pride. His...

A racist attack killed Black teenager Stephen Lawrence in Eltham, London. His family's sustained campaign challenged the failures of the police investigation and brought institutional racism into...

Inuit representatives and the Canadian government signed the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. It established negotiated land and resource rights and provided for the creation of Nunavut through...

A racist arson attack on the Genç family home in Solingen killed five girls and women of Turkish origin. The murders became a defining example of far-right violence against migrant communities in...