The late 1920s and early 1930s witnessed a transitional moment in the evolving politics of gender in colonial Bengal. From ...

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Johnson sat down with ESSENCE to discuss the power of the natural hair movement, how it has evolved, her hopes for the CROWN Act and more insights from her brand-new book 'Natural'.

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Humans lost their ability to synthesize their own vitamin C because our ancestors had access to plenty of fruit.

Nearly a decade earlier, Answers in Genesis opened a Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg, Kentucky, where exhibits similarly ...

At issue was whether school systems are required to provide parents with an "opt-out" option when parents claim their ...

John Phan shows how modern notions of language history are often hampered by nationalist narratives. John Phan is a language ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.

Art and literature hint at past people’s psyches. Now computers can identify patterns in those cognitive fossils, but human expertise remains crucial.

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