On Friday, the 85-year-old sculptor, who created controversy as well as hundreds of pieces of visionary African American folk ...

A Grammy-winning masterpiece forged in defiance, Paul Simon’s Graceland merged joyous South African rhythms with a fierce ...

Astronomers have discovered that jets from a cannibalistic black hole are erupting with the power of 10,000 suns.

Leon Smith, a social studies teacher at Haverford High School in Pennsylvania, has been named the 2026 “National Teacher of ...

Haverford High School’s Leon Smith has been named the 2026 National Teacher of the Year. On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania ...

In South Africa, policies meant to promote fairness are slowing access to technological tools that improve safety, connectivity, and daily life.

Trailblazing beauty queen Cynthia Shange has died at age 76, as confirmed in an official statement shared by the South ...

Fighting in the Middle East forced the cancellation of a March overseas study trip to Bahrain by Grinnell College students, ...

In Tarakea, Tanzania, number plates are swapped, often replaced with those belonging to unrelated or written-off motorbikes.

That's not what District 9 is about though. It wasn't a cute, family-friendly alien movie like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ...

Mohammad Omer Khalil was born in Sudan in 1936, further educated in Italy, taught nearly 30 years in Morocco, and has lived ...

At the 1972 Miss World contest, Cynthia Shange was one of two contestants from South Africa - one black and one white.