It sounds like something out of a movie. Children taken from their homes and families, forced to act a certain way and falling victim to abuse. Only for many Native American families the nightmare was ...

Gunmen attacked a government girls' boarding school in Nigeria's Kebbi State early on Monday, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students, police said, in the latest mass kidnapping in ...

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday, taking 25 schoolgirls and ...

Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only boarding school for girls in Afghanistan. Now, as the school year begins, she reflects on the power of educated women. Shabana Basij-Rasikh co-founded the only ...

Justin pourier was working maintenance at the Red Cloud Indian School in 1995 when a supervisor asked him to check out a leak in the school's heating system. It was early winter in Pine Ridge, South ...

Afghanistan's only girls' boarding school has evacuated dozens of students and staff to Rwanda, the president of the privately-run institution said Tuesday. The move came days after the Taliban ousted ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, ...

Stairs lead to the basement of Drexel Hall at the Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Some community members want the basement to be searched for unmarked graves.

South Dakota has a secret that not many people know about. In the early 1900s, there were Catholic-run boarding schools on nearly every reservation. By law, every child had to leave their families and ...

Dorothea Puente, perhaps Sacramento’s most notorious murderer, was so seemingly non-threatening that authorities let her out of their sights time and time again — even after digging up seven bodies in ...

Boarding passes are more than just a ticket to your seat; they’re filled with hidden details that can shape your entire travel experience. From determining where you sit to whether you’re at risk of ...