World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations doing just that, convening at its grandiloquent headquarters to ...

Discover the transformative power of poetry at the 29th edition of Poetry Africa, where 70 poets from around the globe gather ...

The animal was elegant, with wide, U-shaped horns and a coat the distinctive reddish shade of the sandy African earth—a ...

In the beginning there was the word, and the word remains. We are a living tongue— the word is a torch and we tote it proudly ...

In an event infused with both urgency and tenderness, West Philly community and Reclaim members gathered to write letters to ...

When Carol Sullivan began penning her memoir, she couldn’t have known the creative endeavor would lead to participating in a reality TV show filmed in Peru. But that’s the journey she’s traveled from ...

I don’t think I’ve ever written a column on the word “neither.” And considering how long I’ve been writing this column — more than 20 years — that’s not just odd. It’s suspicious, as if I’ve been ...

A defiant letter sent by legendary SAS commander Blair 'Paddy' Mayne to a comrade just weeks after their elite unit had been disbanded has been found 80 years on. Writing in late November 1945, ...

In his 2005 satirical piece, “How to Write About Africa,” the late Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina explored how the Western gaze in media perpetuates a distorted view of Africa. “Always use the word ...

How to enter the Last Word: If you’re on our website, scroll down to write a caption for the cartoon above by Gary Varvel. Captions must include the author’s real name and home city to be considered ...