As RSIFF marks its fifth edition, the event's founding MD discusses structural change in the Saudi film industry, the huge ...

Mr. Trump last week declared that he had ended the decades-old conflict between Congo and Rwanda when he gathered several ...

The city’s new Caribbean Heritage Museum, with touchscreens playing neighborhood stories, walls displaying decades of ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

On Dec. 5, 1955, in one of the early civil rights actions in the South, Black Americans declared a boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Ala., demanding seating on an equal basis with white people.

The struggle over sea access in East Africa is usually presented as a quarrel over tariffs, port fees and corridors. In fact, ...

In southern Africa, a group of people lived in partial isolation for hundreds of thousands of years. This is shown in a new ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

The idea of nations as neatly bordered spaces can be traced partly to medieval maps of biblical Israel. In A Nutshell ...

South Africa ends its G20 presidency this weekend with a two-day head of states summit focused on debt relief and global inequality – a meeting the United States says it will boycott. Pretoria says it ...