For generations, women in the U.S. fought hard to earn the same privileges as men. Their efforts secured the rights to vote, own land, open a bank account and more. While these women awaited basic ...

In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an indigenous tribe on the island of New Guinea, in which the tribespeople apparently practice the custom of cutting off a portion of their fingers ...

SANTUARIO, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Maria Claris Sintua was just 13, she was put in wooden stocks for three days as a punishment from leaders of her tribe in the Colombian jungle.

Iranian filmmaker Marjan Khosravi, winner of multiple awards for her shorts, is bowing her first feature-length film, “Requiem for a Tribe,” at the Shanghai International Film Festival. The film is in ...

Sacramento this week will host Terra Madre Americas, an international food event affiliated with the "slow food" movement.

For millennia, couples have had to decide where to live. "For the vast majority of human history," says Lara Cassidy, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin, "societies were centered around ties of ...

The women of the Dani tribe of Papua, Indonesia, practice the tradition of ritually amputating parts of their fingers when a loved one dies. In late-October 2024, a post on Facebook highlighted an ...