During the harshest days of Soviet censorship, it was nearly impossible and highly risky to get your hands on Western music. But Soviet people became experts at finding creative, sometimes ...

Israeli troops have reached the outskirts of Gaza City, preparing for its takeover. Israel’s offensive comes at a time when a potential 60-day ceasefire is on the table, which families of the ...

Three physicians from the Dallas, Texas, area are in Gaza, providing medical care to the wounded and ill. Speaking from the Al-Aqsa Hospital compound in Deir al-Balah, Dr. Mohammed Adeel Khaleel, ...

The FDA is advising Walmart customers to throw out certain Great Value brand shrimp products due to possible radioactive contamination. Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist in marine radiochemistry at ...

Go to any poetry reading, and you’ll probably encounter “poet voice” — that monotone way of reading with pauses where pauses should not be. A version of poet voice exists in all aesthetic traditions, ...

Lake View once had a thriving Japanese community, but it fell victim to a push for assimilation. As one Japanese American ...

In the coming weeks, roughly two dozen students will become the inaugural graduates from Ecuador’s first public Indigenous ...

Founded in 2004, the Amawtay Wasi University is the only Indigenous university in Ecuador, and one of only a handful of Indigenous universities across South America. Roughly 2,000 students study there ...

The Kiruna Church and its famed belfry are being moved this week along a three-mile route to a new city center. The move is part of Kiruna’s relocation, because the world’s largest underground ...

Chicago has so many ethnic enclaves — it has Greektown, it has Chinatown. But what happened to the Lake View Japanese American community, and where did it go? The answer is directly tied to a Chicago ...

Apiwe Nxasani-Mawela launched her craft brewery Tolokazi Beer in 2021 — making her South Africa’s first Black female brewery owner. Now, she’s teaching the next generation of female brewers how to ...

Since 1972, a brotherhood of monks who have left the Greek Orthodox Church have retained control of the Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos. “Rebel monks” have effectively been squatting in a monastery ...