CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

Tagan Ja’Nae Marie Drone, 5, died hours after testing positive for COVID-19. Distraught parents of a kindergartener, who died hours after...

The Joe Biden/Kamala Harris win sparked spontaneous celebrations around the U.S., including Black Lives Matter Plaza outside the White...

After the harvest in Ervedal da Beira, Coimbra district in Portugal We spread voluminous green mesh mats around olive trees to catch the...

Idaho Lieutenant Governor Janice McGeachin displays a bible and a handgun as she recites a line from the state Constitution in an Idaho...

Biden advocates clean renewable energy (wind and solar); Trump supports dirty old sources (oil and gas) (Photo by International Renewable...

Herman Melville, who created the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, could not imagine the extinction of the sperm whale. Nineteenth-century...

A team of 60 used slings and other equipment to help pull the whales off the sandbanks (Photo by Brodie Weeding/AFP/Getty Images) The...

Emma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In...

Emma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In...

Before, during and after the transcontinental railroad's construction from 1863 to 1869, thousands of enslaved blacks and, then,...

Some nations view themselves as havens; others as countries with a history of diaspora. The United States falls into the former...

Peoples Temple literature showcases its utopia at Jonestown, Guyana. “. . . Do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and...

My great grandfather, James Kirkwood, was a police constable in St. Ann, Jamaica. But who were his parents? The awakening of more of the...

The Social Dilemma , a Netflix documentary, calls for the collective will to demand regulation of social media, which is hurting...

Festa do Avante!, the annual Portuguese Communist Party festival, was limited to 16,563 attendees because of the COVID-19 pandemic (Photo...

When I wrote an opinion piece for a British newspaper about the overseas image of gun-toting Americans, I wrote about the skewed view of...

Chadwick Boseman, star of the blockbuster Black Panther, died of colon cancer at age 43 on August 28. He also portrayed historical...

The New York Times security guard Jacquelyn Brittany Asbie escorted Joe Biden to The Times editorial board, who did not endorse him. He...

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia, was born free in Norfolk, Virginia. “Oh, would some power the gift to see us, To...

The flag of Ghana inverts Ethiopia’s green-yellow-red Lion of Judah flag and replaces the lion with a black star. Red symbolizes...