A Kenyan environmentalist, she began by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

You start to see what history noticed — and what it didn’t. For Women’s History Month, my colleagues and I pored over hundreds of obituaries in The New York Times archives. Our new project, which we ...

A yearlong national boycott of Target over its DEI rollbacks has ended without concessions or changes to the company's ...

Activists marked the 61st anniversary of 'Bloody Sunday' in Selma, Ala., which paved the way for the Voting Rights Act, which ...

Spending too much time sitting after a heart scare could be deadly. New research shows that patients who were sedentary for more than 14 hours a day in the month after leaving the hospital had a ...

Counting is continuing in Nepal as the party of rapper and ex-Kathmandu mayor Balendra Shah is potentially just one seat away from winning a supermajority in parliament. The Rastr ...

"It's a risk I took because I knew a lot of people would find it underwhelming. Because eventually, it becomes about the villain. But to me, it was always about this person's journey, before and after ...