Themes of race, sexuality and gender remain common reasons to ban books, as some school administrators use AI to determine what gets pulled, a new report finds.

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

Dr. Theopista Masenge was at the hospital in Mbeya, Tanzania, rolling out new treatments for children with high HIV viral loads when she got the call: Stop work, now.

In Peru’s Amazon, Indigenous women are opening their communities to visitors and sharing traditions shaped by centuries of living alongside the rainforest. From cultivating medicinal plants and embrac...

The 1970 essay anthology she edited, “Sisterhood Is Powerful,” is considered one of the essential texts of the modern women’s movement.

With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.

Protester Tess Asplund on the photo that made headlines, and why she sees it as a sign of the change in Sweden today

The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter.

The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.

As Mohenjo-daro prospered, the gap between its richest and poorest households actually shrank. Its shared infrastructure, fair trade systems, and lack of powerful royal elites suggest that equality ma...

An August Wilson classic wouldn’t exist without a Romare Bearden masterpiece. Here’s how the two are intertwined.

David “Davey” Hearn was indicted this month and accused of damaging the pool. He has pleaded not guilty.

Civil rights complaints against schools can no longer use data evaluations, called disparate impact analysis, as evidence of discrimination.

New letters show ICE shifting its rhetoric—and Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Max Frost demanding answers.

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is wrapping up an oral history project in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The 1,200-year-old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest, linked to the legend of Robin Hood, is believed to have died.