Global spending on product placements is expected to top $23 billion in 2021, about a 14% increase over the previous year.
One citation at a time, a professor and her students are crafting a more complete picture of Dante’s women.
Since 9/11, billions have been spent beefing up airport security. Was it worth it?
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The classical tradition has long excluded anyone who wasn’t white. But a succession of Black female artists have attempted…
While they weren’t living through a pandemic, citizens of ancient Pompeii weren’t strangers to societal stress.
Black Americans’ contributions to some of the country’s most iconic dishes and spirits are finally starting to be recognized…
The FDA has largely lost its ability to regulate the myriad pills, powders and potions that promise to grow muscle, shed…
When gay men were confronted about writing ‘no Blacks’ or ‘no Latinos’ on their profiles, many of them became defensive.
Go back to 17th- and 18th-century England and France and you’ll see the same sort of handwringing over birthrates that…
Confronted with centuries of exploitation by their country’s ruling class and foreign powers, Haitian writers warn against…
Athletes and spectators were lured to Olympia by a longing for contact with their compatriots and their gods.
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In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron penned a spoken word song called 'Whitey on the Moon' that criticized the 1969 Moon landing.…
Thanks to shifting tastes and improvements to the brewing process, more craft brewers are offering low-alcohol and nonalcoholic…
The case of Britney Spears, who is trying to end her father's conservatorship, illustrates why the legal arrangement…
Chaucer’s career as a secret agent helped him assume different disguises in his writing. Some scholars interpret this…
In the 19th century, Baartman was dehumanized and mocked for her large posterior. So what does it mean when Black women…