History

Black History Month 2024 has begun. Here's this year's theme and other things to know
The annual celebration started out in 1926 as Negro History Week and expanded to Black History Month in the 1970s. This year celebrates "African Americans and the Arts."
Human remains held by U's medical school raise questions around tribal consultation
A preliminary review found that some of the remains are likely Native American in origin.  A newly revised federal law protecting Indigenous human remains went into effect Friday.
The world's population was up 75 million this year, will stand at 8 billion on Jan. 1
The growth rate for the U.S. in the past year was 0.53 percent, about half the worldwide rate. The U.S. added 1.7 million people and will have a population on New Year's Day of 335.8 million people.