Musician Rhiannon Giddens is a Renaissance woman whose work shines across a variety of genres. She is a talented singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist; she has won two Grammys, a Pulitzer Prize ...

As residents of Minnesota recover from ICE raids on immigrant communities that reached their peak earlier this year, some ...

Ibrahima Seck, retired history professor from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, and director of research at Whitney Plantation and Museum, said he’s proud of the plantation’s historical ...

In Apartheid South Africa, young Black people were excluded from fully accessing higher education due to race. Now, the restrictions on education are about money and class. With the country’s ...

On a trip to the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, visitors are likely to become acquainted with the work of the late researcher Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, one of the most influential Civil Rights ...

In January 2016, protests erupted across India following the death by suicide of a PhD student named Rohith Vemula. Vemula came from the Dalit community, previously referred to as “untouchables” ...

For years, fentanyl has dominated the opioid crisis in the US — but there’s an up-and-coming class of synthetic opioids ...

Colombia opens its World Cup campaign today against Uzbekistan in Mexico City. Fans are pulling out the team’s yellow jersey ...

Jazz bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding was a student in college when she first heard the voice of Milton Nascimento. Now, ...

Denmark’s largest sauna is built like an amphitheater, with three rows of wooden benches encircling an oven in the center. Hot rocks on the stove kept temperatures at about 185 degrees Fahrenheit. On ...

Over 15 million people around the world live with a spinal cord injury, according to the World Health Organization. It’s a lifelong diagnosis that can permanently affect a patient's mobility. In ...

This year, Haiti’s national team will be in the World Cup for only the second time ever, having last participated in 1974.