Jashimuddin Rahmani, the leader of banned Islamist militant group Ansarullah Bangladesh (ABT) - now known as Ansar al Islam - ...

KATE Meyrick embarked on building a nightclub empire as the Great War came to an end — earning a reputation as “The most dangerous woman in London.” Here we take a look at the life and crimes of ...

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum celebrated the legacy of incarcerated Nashville soul pioneers Johnny Bragg and The ...

A group of young singer-songwriters have transformed the genre by looking backward, without getting stuck in the past.

The former “comfort woman” used her voice and her stories to endeavor to bring an end to wartime violence against women ...

Released in 1978, this movie is based on a true story of an American student who used to do drug smuggling and was imprisoned in Turkey. Starring Paul Newman as Luke who is in a Southern prison camp, ...

Pam Grier is the defining actor of Blaxploitation, drawing endless power from a deeply complex genre and changing action forever.

Mildred Hooper’s all-female unit — the 6888th Central Directory Battalion — sailed across the Atlantic during WWII on a mission to sort, organize and deliver a backlog of mail to U.S.

Queer women have been in cinema for pretty much as long as movies have been made, but their history in film is tumultuous, ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Faith Ringgold painted a vibrant mural at the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island. A few years later, it was ...