NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Sudanese-American poet Emi Mahmoud about the fall of Al-Fashir to the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan.

My grandmother left Jerusalem in 1948 with a key that never found its lock again. She believed she would return before the tea cooled in its cup. The ...

Nigerian journalist and writer Oyelola Ogunrinde has been longlisted for the 2025 Live Canon International Poetry Competition, a prestigious UK-based literary award that has celebrated poetic ...

While there has been a great resurgence of interest in the Partition, the story of Sindh and the exodus of Hindu Sindhis from the region is still understudied. A look at books on the Sindhi experience ...

After living for decades in exile, chased by war and religious bans, Naghma persists in singing to her people.

Elaine Goodale and Charles Eastman’s 19th-century interracial marriage made them a media sensation. But tensions over gender, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Poetry is more than an art form. It is a lineage of healing. Our communities have long used rhythm, story, and verse to transform pain into wisdom. In every language and every tradition, we have ...

A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report ...

It was Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, and Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift to mark the occasion. She turned to Epstein’s family and friends. One of them was Donald Trump. Maxwell ...

Widely known for her villainous role as Sarah Newlin in the HBO horror drama series True Blood, actress Anna Camp surprised her fans when she broke the news about dating a woman. The 42-year-old ...