Reaching the stars, helping the poor: Honoured for scaling peaks and touching lives

The two were among 13 mountaineers awarded the Asoke Kumar Sarkar Smarak Samman and Adhip Kumar Sarkar Smarak Samman at a ...

For the first time since the 1960s, the gender pay gap is widening again — experts say these 3 economic forces are pushing women’s earnings backward

According to the latest Census Bureau data, women earned just 80.9 cents for every dollar men made in 2024, down from 84 ...

Black artists music wouldn't be the same without

Stacker takes a look at Black artists music wouldn't be the same without, from Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Tupac Shakur.
MinnPost

How the American Indian Movement Patrol combated police brutality in Minneapolis

Patrollers worked to decrease police brutality against Native people by limiting interaction between police and community members.

The Movies That Capture Women’s Deepest Fears

The biggest accomplishment of these films and others like them, Johnson contends, is that they made women’s suffering ...

Nigerian Modernism: an ‘entrancing, enlightening exhibition’

Now this cultural “renaissance” is the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Modern, which brings together some 250 pieces – ...

25 Years Later, Annie Leibovitz Raises the ‘Question of Women’ Again

In 1988, Annie Leibovitz met Susan Sontag during a shoot to support Sontag’s upcoming work of critical theory, AIDS and Its ...
London Review of Books

Holed below the Waterline

By contrast, the chancellor of the exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, suggested to Thatcher that the ‘option of managed decline’ ...

How Hershey’s chocolate survived an attack from Mars − and adopted a business strategy alien to its founder

Before the 1960s, the Hershey Chocolate Corp. reigned supreme as the undisputed chocolate king. It was in that decade that Mars went for Hershey’s jugular. Hershey Chocolate’s response brought lasting ...