HERO OF THE DAY BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS — Long before Emancipation became law in 1833, before proclamations were read and chains were legally struck off, there was a woman on the island of St. Kitts who ...

Images of starving families in Turkana County are back in the headlines, followed, as always, by a predictable political blame game. But the deeper story is rarely told: Turkana did not simply fall ...

What's On Editor Jenna Campbell visited Singapore, a destination that deserves more attention and time than just a mere 24-hour stopover ...

MONTHS before Mudiare Onobrakpeya raised the alarm over the late Professor Ben Enwonwu’s missing ‘The Drummer’, a bronze figure previously mounted atop NECOM House (former NET and NITEL building), the ...

President Trump’s attack plans for Iran have roiled a deal for the United Kingdom to cede control of the tiny and isolated ...

In the second half of the 19th Century, photography became one of the British Empire’s most persuasive instruments for knowing – and classifying – India. A new exhibition – called Typecasting: ...

Abigail wrote her husband John a pointed letter while he was away at the Continental Congress on March 31, 1776. She demanded ...

Britain’s history is intertwined with empire and colonialism. The UK was forged as a nation-state alongside, and partly to ...

The event, titled "Some Tea and Loaf Sugar: Tea and Society at Michilimackinac," will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25 on Zoom. According to a community announcement, the program is part of ...

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Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima, best known as a pioneer of the L.A. Rebellion movement, held court this afternoon in the ...

NPR's Lauren Frayer arrived in London after years in India, and she's been covering Britain with the legacy of empire in view ...