History

She was the first Black woman to have her music played by a major orchestra in the US, so why has she been overlooked?

Drone footage captures never before seen figure of an ancient giant cat etched into a hillside in Peru.

How a mass lynching and the people re-enacting it are forcing the US to confront the truth of its...

The dramatic life of outspoken Palestinian singer and musician, Rim Banna – her talent, struggle and...

Amid violence, greed and negligence, old Baghdad is disappearing.

A Chechen dancer and choreographer finds peace through his country’s traditional dance as a new ruler emerges.

Talal Abu Rahma captured the final moments in the life of a boy in Gaza as his father tried to shield him from bullets.

The far right has been shown to pose a far greater danger, so why are so many Americans afraid of anti-fascists?

Lebanese artists discuss the ever-changing journey of their country, a nation marked by conflict.

The UN’s relief chief says coronavirus has added 100 million people to those in need of humanitarian relief worldwide.

The life and death of anti-apartheid hero Imam Abdullah Haron, who was tortured and died in police custody in 1969.

A growing number of cookbooks have been translated into English, helping bring old foods to new palates.

Two other executives will also leave after the mining giant destroyed Indigenous Australian heritage sites.

In 1949, truncheon-wielding police officers descended on the racially integrated concert of singer Paul Robeson.