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NAIROBI, Kenya — For a year and a half, phone calls to people trying to survive one of the world’s worst wars didn’t go through. Now, as phone lines start to be restored to parts of Ethiopia’s Tigray region after…
“Two-Spirit” explores the intersection of transphobia with problems like sexism and poverty in an Indigenous community in Colombia. While scanning social media one day, the Colombian filmmaker Mónica Taboada-Tapia happened upon a video interview of a woman named Georgina. “I…
Not long ago, I ordered pizza for my teen-age son and a few of his buddies. It was early on a rainy fall evening, and I was walking my dog when the delivery person arrived at our home, in northeast…
This year was a landmark one in podcast history. Adnan Syed, whose case was the basis of “Serial” ’s explosive first season and of further reporting in “Undisclosed,” was freed from prison after twenty-three years. And as the media landscape continued…
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is preparing to urge the Department of Justice to prosecute former President Donald Trump on criminal charges during its business meeting on Monday, sources familiar with the matter…
When delegates from 49 countries and the African Union converged in Washington, D.C., for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit this week, it appears one of Africa's most popular cultural ambassadors, Afrobeats superstar Burna Boy, was not top of mind. Even so,…
