What happens when singeli, a genre born in Dar es Salaam’s working-class underground, becomes a symbol of national culture, embraced by the very state that once distrusted it?

En Ouganda, un projet de loi suscite une vive inquiétude. Ce texte reprend la notion d’"agents étrangers", déjà utilisée en Russie pour faire taire les opposants.

A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.

A historic collaboration between the UC Davis Department of History, Middle East/South Asia Studies Program, and the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) is helping bring academically gro...

Once anchored in mass struggle and socialist politics, the feminist movement in Nigeria now navigates the contradictions of donor dependency, digital activism, and elite capture. On the podcast, we un...

Some thoughts on the Supreme Court, The EHRC and other feminist dystopias

Executive orders from President Trump have agencies across the government scrubbing websites of photos and references to transgender people, women and people of color.

Occasionally a display of racist violence is so brutal and grotesque that it forces South Africans to time travel.

On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

“[T]he University of North Texas administration recently censored the content of more than two hundred academic courses, including by mandating the...

Conservative women believe complicity will save them. But an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights

Reports of our demise might have been premature

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities in the mineral-rich eastern part of the country, is triggering panic. Reports...

An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."

Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs,...

The closure of clinics is just one example of the disruption and confusion surrounding the near-total freeze on US aid and development funding ordered by US President Donald Trump

The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and five high-ranking Justice Department officials resigned Thursday to protest the Trump administration’s order to dismiss corruption charges against New York...

The National Parks Service erases all mention of trans people from the Stonewall National Monument after a flurry of executive orders, but erasure will not stop us from existing.

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is responsible for gathering data on a wide range of topics, including research-backed teaching practices and the state of U.S. student achievement.

The humanitarian industrial complex should be dismantled—but not by a billionaire-backed administration with no plan beyond abandonment.

[To sign this petition please complete this form.] We urge you to rescind your veto of the Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza and put theresolution to a vote of all AHA members. The Council’s ...

Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler

This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

The Department of Anthropology seeks to hire a sociocultural anthropologist of Palestine. The appointment will be made at the assistant or associate professor rank.

Dictionary lookups from the trade wars, the Grammy Awards, and the high seas

Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.

Exclusive: Bobby Scott sounds alarm over ‘void of oversight’ as Doge accesses sensitive data within US agencies

Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

The map we’re creating together will be a literal visual representation of our global solidarity and that’s really cool! Please, take a second to be a part of our visual map for Black Futures Month by...

Thousands of press releases about decade-old enforcement actions topped search results, all updated with a timestamp from after Trump’s inauguration

Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday at the Captial Mall in Sacramento to protest recent policies adopted by the Trump administration.

**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...