When Rupal Ramesh Shah and Anup Kumar Kanodia decided to get married, they knew they wanted to infuse their wedding with the cultures – Indian, East African and American – that had nurtured them.

This is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Farai Chideya. Today, a special roundtable discussion on the state of black marriage in 2006. But first, back to 1965. A report called Black Families in Crisis, written by ...

Mehr Singh is a food and culture reporter based in New York. Her work appears in Bon Appétit, Food52, and other publications. On a breezy evening in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 2022, moments before ...

For generations, marriage in India was considered a rite of passage often before 25, with family, caste, and tradition driving the timeline. But today’s Indian millennials are rewriting that narrative ...

African American weddings are not the same as American weddings but a mixture of both traditions. From jumping the broom, which is an African tradition, to a couples’ first dance which is more of an ...

Big Chief Demond Melancon wears his Red Cloud suit amongst other members of Mardi Gras Indian tribes during Mardi Gras 2014. In February 2021, the usual bustle of New Orleans’ Canal Street stopped ...

The second talk in the annual Calvin College Alumni Lecture Series promises to be informative and intriguing. [body photo omitted] Kimberly Huyser, a 2003 Calvin graduate, will speak on "So, You Wanna ...