Illinois lawmakers passed two bills banning discriminatory disability mascots and Native American team names in schools, ...

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

Émile Durkheim was a son of a son of a rabbi. This legacy traced back eight generations and he himself was in a yeshiva ...

Long considered a special finger, the thumb is emerging from the shadows. And with it, a long-underestimated piece of jewelry ...

African textiles are rich with history and culture, often carrying hidden meanings in their intricate patterns ...

The former imperial capital is both the symbol of Japan's temples and geishas and of globalized overtourism. And yet, blocks ...