This year marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitut...

Gender equality is a better predictor of a state’s peacefulness than gross domestic product, a recent Sta...

Almost 50 years ago, the world’s first independent living facility run by and for people with disabilitie...

NASA has renamed its Washington headquarters to honor Mary W. Jackson, the first female African American ...

University of Pennsylvania Ph.D. candidate Mark Bookman has studied in Japan several times, starting out ...

To enter a shop and chat with the person behind the counter is a rare experience for deaf and hard of hea...

Juneteenth, or June 19th, is an annual holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. ...

The United States leads the world in assisting refugees abroad until they can safely and voluntarily retu...

In the United States, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right of people to assemble peaceably ...

For hundreds of years Americans have taken to the streets to say, “This is what we believe, and we will b...

When were you first made aware of race? And as a child, how did you make sense of human differences? T...

The movement to safeguard the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people i...

As the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 15 that gay and transgender employees are protected by federal an...

American medical students are volunteering to help COVID-19 health care workers manage the home front. ...

A Smithsonian Institution exhibit titled Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World has been expanded in it...

As the effects of the new coronavirus have hurt retail spending, economists are closely watching the beha...

On “Freedom’s Eve,” or the eve of January 1, 1863, the first Watch Night services took place. On that nig...

Scholars around the world who have been part of the State Department’s Fulbright Program are using their ...