PBS' four-part documentary on the Black and Jewish experience in America, presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr., examines how ...

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German video art collector Julia Stoschek is bringing her landmark video art collection to the historic Variety Arts Theater in downtown L.A., marking the first major U.S. presentation from Stoschek's ...

Six Indigenous women have been given statues on the Paseo de las Heroinas in Mexico City. Here's the story behind each.

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High school students are likely to learn about the Inca, Maya and Aztec civilizations as representatives of pre-Columbian Latin America. They read about Spanish conquistadors such as Hernán Cortés, ...