We Believe in Dinosaurs is an exploration of the scientific and historical veracity of the Bible and the construction of an authentic likeness of Noah’s Ark in Williamstown, Kentucky. Known as “The ...

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A common mindset through modern American history is that people living in poverty simply don’t want to work.¹ For decades, politicians have used programs like food stamps, unemployment, social ...

The United States locks up a lot of people. Our prison population rate of roughly 700 per 100,000 is the second-highest of 222 countries tracked by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research. Nearly ...

The one-child policy was introduced to China in 1979, written into the national constitution in 1982, and subsequently ended in 2015. Over the 36 years of the policy, entire generations have been ...

Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness examines the life and work of the Jewish-American anthropologist, Melville Herskovits, whose writings challenged prevailing notions of race and culture.

During the Nazi occupation of France, four young women — who were neither Jews nor Communists nor in any danger of arrest — chose to risk their lives as Resistance fighters. Brought together in prison ...

An Israeli soccer club's fans waged a racist campaign after their team, Beitar, added two Muslim players from Chechnya.

Coerced sterilization is a shameful part of America’s history, and one doesn’t have to go too far back to find examples of it. Used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations – immigrants, ...

The harrowing, riveting documentary Beyond Utopia, captures what life is like for refugees after escaping North Korea. What happens to the family you left behind? How hard is it to adjust to life in a ...

Multinational coffee companies rule shopping malls and supermarkets and dominate the $80-billion-plus coffee industry. But while Americans continue to pay for luxury lattes and cappuccinos, the prices ...

A haunting exploration of lynching and racial violence in America.