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For many, Barack Obama’s rise to the presidency of the United States is the archetypal American success story — the...

On a warm graduation day at the University of Illinois, the cameras flashed, capturing more than just academic triumph. David...

In a quiet surgical theater somewhere in Silicon Valley, a child opens their eyes after a delicate procedure—and sees their...

In the searing Louisiana summer heat, the streets of New Orleans pulse with anticipation. The ESSENCE Festival of Culture is...

On a summer day in Berlin, a young boy chased a ball across a dusty sidewalk with the kind of...

On a chilly London evening, under the pulsing lights of a cramped comedy basement in Soho, a young woman steps...

Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru never set out to become a global face of climate justice. Yet today, she stands as one...

In a corner of East London, tucked between tower blocks and winding streets, a daughter of Kenya quietly rewrote the...

When Rita Luise Bühring closes her eyes and thinks of home, she doesn’t see walls or borders. She feels the...