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Decades before Motown ruled the radio, labels like Black Swan and Black Patti put out records that didn't stereotype African American music.

It seems that every summer brings record temperatures. But there's more to a heat wave than daytime highs.

Arguably the world's most abundant animal, calanoid copepods can leap like whoa Nelly. And check out their enigmatic embryos!

"Hoisting" at the professional level could bring a sense of pride, along with the relief of avoiding grueling domestic work.

On October 17, 1961, Parisian police attacked a group of Algerians. The event would be lost to French history until a Nazi collaborator was exposed.

Was a well-preserved set of game pieces and other childhood items buried by a young woman before she got married?

Grassland birds, such as the prairie chicken, plover, and bobolink, need a complex environment of varying structure, area, and grass types.

Some nineteenth-century women writers argued that the first Christians included women who were close to Paul—and maybe apostles themselves.

American popular culture inhibits a close relationship between African-Americans and the African continent.