Planet Hip Hop: The World celebrates 50 years of hip-hop around the globe

Historians are learning more about how the Nazis targeted trans people

This film professor says Melvin Van Peebles taught her that ‘when Hollywood is closing the door, you find your own way’

It’s been 60 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in outer space

President Biden set to further regulate ‘ghost guns’

Artist Shungudzo feels an urgency to ‘use her words’ to fight against racism

How new legislation could improve Holocaust education in US public schools

Relying on electronic voting machines puts us at risk, security expert says

Estos son los jóvenes votantes latinos de ‘Cada 30 Segundos’

In Georgia, a young Latina reluctantly casts her primary vote for Biden

In ‘The Humorist,’ Soviet comedy is no joke

How the race for nuclear power began

Inside the Fight to Reunite Families Separated at the U.S. Border

Haiti has a burgeoning entrepreneur scene, but can it make room for Haitians forced to return from the US?

The UK’s move away from coal means they’re burning wood from the US

The Mexican government says it will help people who are deported, but they often are left to make it on their own

As opioids land more women in prison, Ohio finds alternative treatments

What turns some law-abiding Canadians into smugglers? The high price of imported cheese.

Environmental prosecutions under Trump projected to be the lowest in two decades

Whatever became of National Brotherhood Week?

The children of H-1B visa holders are growing up — and still waiting for green cards

With papers, my brother-in-law could be worth more than a dollar a day to the world

Another time in history that the US created travel bans — against Italians

The unsung Soviet officer who averted nuclear war

Mexicans and Americans bond over a giant baby and a border wall

A ‘man of no land’ tries to find home in Saudi Arabia

Bumps along South Africa’s yellow BRIC road

Young, undocumented and trying to ‘keep my sanity’

How China’s past shapes dreams of future power

An American tradition took shape in Mexico — and then returned to the US

Their lives are changing because of Trump’s immigration policies. Here’s how.

No, Trump isn’t isolating America, says popular conservative blogger

In Minnesota, a measles outbreak exposes the gaps in public health

This underground railroad took slaves to freedom in Mexico

Why this Muslim American, who fled Iran in 1979, backs Trump’s travel ban

Mr. Trump, I would be dead today if this country had not let me in

#7. @realdonaldtrump: In addition to undocumented immigrants, are you prioritizing deportation of lawful US residents? #100Days100Qs

Pozole, songs and the things that survived colonization

What is often called ‘illegal immigration’ isn’t really treated as illegal

The World’s music features this week: Eljuri, Kady and Greg Lake

Why Haitians are stranded in Mexico

Getting out of prison it’s hard to find a job. Why not help ex-prisoners start their own businesses?

America talks a lot about a ‘race war.’ Here’s why it doesn’t need to fight one

How Persian shadow theater is bringing an Iranian epic to life

Syrian family in California feels post-Paris chill

Sudanese American parents look at Ahmed Mohamed and think of their own kids

When I try to belong in America, I long for India — and vice versa

US veteran says police response in Ferguson ‘isn’t the country we fought to protect’

How wars end part II: the American Civil War

The Big Canal

Guaranteed lunch? China’s food ‘pipeline’

It’s a rough time to be a US diplomat, when your country is caught spying

US government says ‘We’ll protect you’ to refugees, but what happens during shutdown?

What’s the story of your first days in America?

Plan to ship Wyoming coal to Asia runs into opposition from Northwest greens