African kingdoms actively participated in and profited from the slave trade.Barbary pirates enslaved over a million Europeans in Mediterranean raids.

Initially driven by impoverished Bedouins, attacks escalated into deadly assaults on tourist hubs like Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab ...

A Healthy Nation? IN ancient Greece, slaves were forbidden from exercising so they didn’t get strong enough to revolt. Roman ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

The remarkable legacy of Saint John the Russian continues to thrive in Greece, where his revered relics are enshrined in a ...

America’s wars provide an interesting perspective, and perhaps even a relevant paradigm for Israel. Take Texas, for example.

Despite an abundance of plot strands and characters, Anderson’s latest drills down into the father-daughter relationship ...

This ideology accuses countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, and Israel of an ongoing genocide. The adherents had to perform some intellectual contortions and prevarications to make that ...

Cape Town Opera delivers a superb production of one of opera’s true classics, Aida. This production reimagines the setting in an African futurist time and landscape.

Anyone interested in searching the Fairfax Court Slavery Index should contact the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center at 703-246-4168 or historicalrecords@f… A local college student is ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to Virginia in 1619 marked the origins of U.S. slavery. Traditions EndurePainted in the ...