Shilpi Agarwal is the Legal Director at the ACLU of Northern California. A seasoned civil-rights attorney, Agarwal began her ...

“Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state ...

Steven Brown has dedicated more than three decades to serving as the executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Prior to his long tenure in Rhode ...

J. Brian Atwood is an American diplomat and educator whose six-decade career reflects a lifetime of work across US foreign policy and international development. He began his public service as a ...

Marked by heavy layers of black clothing, comically tall boots, eccentric eyeliner, and coils of silver chains, goth subculture emerged in 1970s Britain as an offshoot of the punk movement. Since then ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the most consequential events in modern history. Those who remember it can recall the reactions of their families, the media, and the international community.

The Miss Universe pageant has been a pillar of pop culture in the United States for decades—whether it be the glamorous outfits, a sense of nationalism, or Steve Harvey iconically crowning the wrong ...

Daniel Jordan Smith is a Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at Brown University, as well as a Director of the Africa Initiative. He received a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from ...

Beside my grandparents’ apartment door stands a potted plant with a note to fellow building occupants, handwritten in Azerbaijani by my grandfather: “Бура кул габы деjил,” or “This is not an ashtray.” ...

Accompanying the rise of populism and increased polarization across the world, many governmental institutions are being scrutinized for both their structure and their actions. Among these institutions ...

“How do we sum up the expectations that the peoples of Africa had on the eve of independence, or evaluate what has happened to those hopes and aspirations since the coming of political independence?” ...

A Brown assistant professor with over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Jacqueline Nesi has garnered extensive media attention for her work studying the impacts of social media on adolescent mental ...