Identity

September 10, 2019

Activists hope this will set a precedent for intersex rights in Kenya, but intersex inclusion is still far from reality.

How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS

PRI's The World

September 05, 2019

Noam Shuster-Eliassi says she doesn’t just want to make people laugh — she wants to make them think.

Refugees

Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia

GlobalPost

September 05, 2019

Mohamudul Hasson and Tobarik Huson, both Rohingya from Myanmar, met in Malaysia after taking arduous journeys to escape persecution and stagnation as stateless Muslim minorities. Neither Myanmar nor neighboring Bangladesh recognizes them as citizens.

Activists say it’s time to do away with Le Sauvage, a Belgian festival’s traditional blackface character

PRI's The World

August 23, 2019

In Belgium, people have dressed up in blackface at festivals for decades. But in recent years, a push to end the practice is gaining steam.

Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ is emotional for descendents on both sides of the slave trade

PRI's The World

August 23, 2019

As two groups of people separated generations ago are reunited, they’re also confronting their differences.

Conflict

30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters

PRI's The World

August 22, 2019

The human chain paved the way to Baltic independence, and, on the eve of its 30th anniversary, offers inspiration for Hong Kong protesters.

Reproductive rights

China’s Gen X moms turn to IVF in desperate quest for a second baby

GlobalPost

August 21, 2019

For decades, China’s one-child policy limited women to one child. In 2016, China introduced the two-child policy and now, older mothers are racing against their biological clocks to have another baby — with high emotional stakes.

'Willful amnesia': How Africans forgot — and remembered — their role in the slave trade

PRI's The World

August 20, 2019

Ghana’s “Year of Return” is changing how the history of the slave trade is remembered in Africa.

A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own

PRI's The World

August 19, 2019

Rachel Engmann, a professor at Hampshire College, found her surname in a slave castle in Accra, Ghana, and decided to do some digging.

Language

Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

The Conversation

August 15, 2019

Linguists have a lot of largely untested theories. Borrowing a tool from ecology, researchers built a model that didn't look for one worldwide explanation.

Identity

'Intersex' is counted in Kenya's census — but is this a victory?

How comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi became the woman who proposed to MBS

Fast friends, Rohingya refugees in exile rebuild their lives in Malaysia

Activists say it’s time to do away with Le Sauvage, a Belgian festival’s traditional blackface character

Ghana’s ‘Year of Return’ is emotional for descendents on both sides of the slave trade

30 years later, the human chain that 'unshackled' the Baltic nations still matters

China’s Gen X moms turn to IVF in desperate quest for a second baby

'Willful amnesia': How Africans forgot — and remembered — their role in the slave trade

A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own

Why are so many languages spoken in some places and so few in others?

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