ATLANTA (AP) — Black women around the world gather in salons, dorm rooms and living rooms for hours at a time to get ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

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Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new study is hoping to reassert her place in history.

Hair colour has long been a reflection of cultural identity, genetics, and societal norms across civilizations. The natural ...

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In his autobiographical account, The Travels of Marco Polo, the famous 13th-century Venetian explorer recorded his visit to Sumatra, Indonesia. "There are wild elephants in the country", he wrote ...

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With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to ...

It’s notoriously one of the world’s most patriarchal societies, but I had a behind-the-scenes look at the secret lives’ of ...

In 11th-Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new study is hoping to reassert her place in history. She was old.

The Sportatorium, which over the past two decades played host to everything from Grateful Dead concerts and Striker soccer ...