The portrait arrived in Portland in 1873. Its subject, Macon Bolling Allen, was admitted to the Maine bar decades earlier as the nation's first Black lawyer. His picture hung at City Hall for several ...

Author Frances Levine tells the stories of a mix of women, each with different and very personal reasons for taking America’s ...

ExCeL London is a convention center by the Thames in what used to be the London docks. Once the busiest port in the world, it ...

Long blonde hair held in place with a flower wreath or sometimes with two ponytails, and face painted with minimal makeup – ...

Precisely in times of abundance and in the absence of an external enemy, the various groups in society find it difficult to ...