In Cuba, There Isn’t a Movement for Black Thought, or Black Pride. It Doesn’t Exist.
Some might consider Cuba to be a post-race society. But, for Cubans of African-descent, conversations about race are waiting to explode like an atomic bomb.
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Some might consider Cuba to be a post-race society. But, for Cubans of African-descent, conversations about race are waiting to explode like an atomic bomb.
In southwestern China, the Mosuo uphold one of the world’s last matrilineal societies. As tourists flock to the region, bringing money and clashing values, can female-first traditions endure?
More than 370 treaties between the U.S. government and American Indian nations have been signed. Nearly all have been broken. But these promises still bind us all today.
The Associated Press has reconstructed the massacre at Maung Nu as told by 37 survivors now scattered across refugee camps in Bangladesh.
The political front is stalemated, and the occupation grinds on—but some Palestinians are creating their own facts on the ground.
The U.S. has ratified more than 370 treaties with American Indian nations. Yet many Americans know little about the treaties that shaped, and continue to impact, the country today.
An AP report documents savage sexual assaults on 29 women and girls, age 13 to 35, bolstering the case that Myanmar’s armed forces are systematically employing rape as a "calculated tool of terror."
Why the Burmese military has used the rhetoric of the global war on terror as a pretext for its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims
Shula Lavyel traces her past and that of her husband Amos, also a Polish Jew—their childhood in Poland, their arrivals in Palestine in 1934 and 1943, and their return visits to the old country.
Abraham Segal survived the Holocaust by finding work and refuge with a Polish family. Today he is at home in Israel, but he keeps painful memories of joining a Zionist community as an orphan in 1946.
In the background of September's independence referendum, the fate of persecuted groups like the Shabak hangs in the balance.
Anxiety surrounds a Kurdish independence referendum. The Kurdistan Regional Government shows no sign of postponing the vote. Young Kurds find themselves excited and worried.