Among the happenings at Green Bay's sixth annual Juneteenth celebration: a marriage proposal, a new hula hoop champion, and candy throwing.

The monarch, 76, led a moment of silence and changed his uniform to pay tribute at the centuries-old paradeNEED TO KNOWKing ...

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David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ...

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

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