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Babe Ruth, patron saint of the home run, turned the ball field into a church – and lived his own Catholic faith in the spotlight

The Sultan of Swat turned every stadium into a cathedral, and home runs into a sacrament. Bettmann via Getty Images by Rebecca T. Alpert, Temple University “I’ve...

How Chicana women artists have often used the figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe for political messages

Chicana artist Yolanda Lopez’s artwork: ‘Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe.’ Yolanda Lopez, CC BY-NC-ND by Judith Huacuja, University of Dayton In 1975, Chicano...

How some Muslim and non-Muslim rappers alike embrace Islam’s greeting of peace

by Margarita Guillory, Boston University and Jeta Luboteni, Boston University Ever since the United States’ “war on terror” began, American media has been rife with...

Never mind Cleopatra – what about the forgotten queens of ancient Nubia?

Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe. Einsamer Schütze/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA by Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Netflix documentary...

The Nation of Islam: A brief history

Malcolm X helped lead the Nation of Islam until 1964. Truman Moore/Getty Images by Joseph R. Stuart, Brigham Young University May 2023 marks 98 years since the...

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