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The Great Lent is one of the four fasting seasons of the Orthodox Church. The Great Lent is considered abstaining from something one cherishes to eat, like the traditional Ketfo (a bowl of finely ...

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy — a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia — he also lost his ...

In 10 years the designer has redefined menswear and turned the Adidas Samba into a smash hit. She talks sneakers, strategy ...

In the U.S. capital of Washington DC, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls called the "netela" are ...

THE traditional conception of England among average Frenchmen is expressed in the words "perfidious Albion." Some years ago I made an effort to run down the source of the term. I failed. One meets it ...

At museums in the Twin Cities, where Hmong families settled after a Vietnam proxy war in Laos, story cloths and other ...