With hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools,” she defined a female archetype: sensual and strong, long-suffering but ...

Read about African soccer today, and you’ll notice every pundit waxing poetic about Ghana or Côte d’Ivoire. It’s easy to forget that not so long ago, Cameroon’s “Indomitable Lions” were Africa’s ...

In June 1942, 27-year-old Florence Ebersole Smith was hired as a bookkeeper at Manila’s Philippine Liquid Fuel Distribution Union. The company was run by a Japanese businessman who’d been installed by ...

In the vast archives of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History resides the title of ownership to a machine named Indomitable that represents a milestone in the history of medical ...

If you’re heartbroken, Kat Wright‘s By My Side might be a perilous listen. Like any good soul album, it’s heavy with moody, plunging grooves, wailing horns and the sort of bittersweet ache that can ...