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Family history is one thing and DNA-based ancestry is another: You just can't map beautiful, defining, important family stories onto a DNA tree, says blogger Alva Noë.

This hour, we feature stories and sounds from the West African country of Nigeria. First, WSHU reporter Ebong Udoma checks in from Abuja, Nigeria, where…

We've been talking a lot over this last year about problems like misogyny and violence in football, rape on college campuses, mass shootings, and…

Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra and his team are using some polarizing rhetoric as they try to hold on to Hartford city hall. Segarra is casting this as a…

Think about the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø state flag. Could you draw it from memory? What does it mean? Did you know that the three grapevines in the seal represent the…

An explosive case in her own rural Virginia community leads anthropologist Barbara J. King to explore the role of local school boards in protecting — and promoting — transgender teens' rights.

To test subtle biases, researchers sent state legislators identical emails about voting requirements. Some emails came from a man with a "Latino" name, and others from an "Anglo" name.

Extraordinary numbers of people are about to join the ranks of the unemployed—by choice. They're about to retire. (Of course some are forced to give up…

Mario Pavone and Jimmy Greene are both veterans of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's jazz scene -- having grown up here, decades apart -- and both deciding to make the state…

Imagine two people. One of them is named Betsy Kaplan, the other, Betsy F.P.R. Academic studies suggest people, on average, would infer a higher…