The Native Title Act receives royal assent

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...

Colombia enacted Law 70, establishing a framework for collective land ownership by Black communities in specified rural riverine areas of the Pacific region. It also addressed cultural identity and...

The multiparty negotiating process approved an interim constitutional agreement to guide South Africa away from apartheid. It provided the framework for universal adult suffrage, rights protection and...

The predominantly Indigenous Zapatista Army of National Liberation began an uprising in Chiapas and issued its First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle. Its demands included land, housing, health,...

President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 12898, directing federal agencies to address disproportionately high adverse environmental and health effects on minority and low-income populations....

The principal polling day of South Africa's first democratic national election marked the inclusion of citizens previously excluded by apartheid. Voting took place over several days. Black majority...

Nelson Mandela was inaugurated in Pretoria as South Africa's first Black president following the democratic election. The ceremony made the end of white minority executive rule internationally...

Thousands marched in Los Angeles against Proposition 187, which sought to exclude undocumented immigrants from public services. Unions, community organizations and young activists coordinated...