For years, the brilliant young law yers of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. were the constitutional commandos of the civil rights movement. L.D.F., as it is known, was the ...

Cora Daniels has problems with the cultural legacy of the hood. In her new book, "GhettoNation: A Journey Into The Land of Bling and The Home of The Shameless," the journalist and writer examines how ...

Countless books have been written — and films made — about the Warsaw Ghetto. It saw more than 400,000 Jews packed into the largest urban ghetto created by the Nazis in Europe, leading to a ...

With the Great Migration, “the ghetto” became a term to describe urban areas where southern Black Americans were moving and settling into. Due to government-implemented systems such as redlining and ...

Greater Greater Washington, in an interesting blog post the other day, delved into the use of the word “ghetto” in part in response to the heated online discussion that ensued over a mural ...

VENICE — Walking into the Jewish Ghetto here, in the Cannaregio section of this watery city, you would not know that there are five ornate synagogues nestled behind the walls of the nondescript ...

While the story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is well-documented, pockets of Jewish resistance surfaced in smaller ghettos across Nazi-occupied central-eastern Europe too. Zhetel is one such place.