Meet some ground-breaking women who raised their voices in diverse ways, despite the 'sound barriers' dictating they should not be heard....

Ground-breaking jazz pianist, band-leader, and composer-arranger Toshiko Akiyoshi not only gave the world astonishing music, but made the...

Common people, all of us, black and white, young and old, rich and poor are able to accomplish so much. What types of courage and change...

Indigenous Australian photographer and mother-of-four, Bobbi Lockyer, specializes in culturally-significant photography of babies, their...

These may not be the most popular tourist attractions in the world, and may not even attract many visitors, but they are extraordinary...

Trees provide a foundation for our life and civilization, providing beauty and solace to the eyes, oxygen, food, building materials,...

Showcasing the influences that Black, Indigenous, and Afro-identifying women musicians have had on music history. She Shreds magazine...

From Africa to Mesopotamia to Egypt to China to Europe, listen to humanity's oldest music as sung and played on instruments. Anduwa: Aka...

Children are the foundation and future hope of humanity. Here's an opportunity to glimpse some of the lives they inhabit and see visions...

Mildred Bailey and Jim Pepper are little-known these days, but these indigenous musicians are towering legends in the history of jazz....

Camille Seaman's stunning photography is a journey toward understanding: "...one day I was just like, 'That’s it, I’m fed up. I don’t...

Combining archeological information and digital technology allows us to experience some of the great ancient cities of the past as they...

Jazz is a highly expressive art form, displaying the full range of musicians’ individual personalities, and thus of their spiritual,...

Settle back and get your mind blown by the simple reality of our oneness. One human family. One planet. One human journey. The song...

The Staple Singers' fusion of music and message produced a powerful elixir of love, justice, and liberation. Here's their story and a...

A remarkable photographer gives us the Guatemalan highlands as a work of art. Francisco Sojuel creates incredible landscape photography,...

Supported by UNESCO, the World Digital Library's collections present cultural treasures from around the world. Historic manuscripts,...

Our true human colors are not the white, red, black, or yellow so often associated with race. Learning to see humanity's true portrait is...

Traditional (and contemporary) legends, poems, and stories in the form of beautifully animated short films, from talented Indigenous...

There are all kinds of beautiful views of our home planet from space. Here's some you probably haven't seen, or even, perhaps, imagined....

Astonishing? Incredible? Such words seem too weak for Theo Jansen's marvelous beests! I'll go with 'monsterful' (an obsolete word meaning...

This photographic artist captures eye-popping images of Mexico's native people, creating an essential photographic archive that never...

Attitudes toward time differ across cultures, and across generations, often in quite significant ways. Time touches on our deepest...

The word chocolate comes from the Nahuatl word /chikola:tl/ which meant "chocolate beverage" and today designates a well-loved beverage...