The Jewish holiday, which begins at sunset on Saturday, April 12 this year, lasts for seven or eight days each year.

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In 1858, while delivering a speech about women’s rights, Isabella Baumfree was viciously heckled by pro-slavery White men who ...

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A History of the World in Six Plagues" explores the racial and class inequalities linking infectious disease epidemics.

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The Wheel of Time season 3, episode 7's massive Two Rivers battle reversed four pivotal moments from the source material, The ...

The Seder is a ritual of induced dissonance. It trains us to sit inside the discomfort of anticipation and contradiction.

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The actors portraying the three Ratliff children on the buzzy HBO series are ready to talk about it all — the incest, the ...