Every year on June 19, the world comes together to honour its cultural diversity through World Ethnic Day. More than just a ...

A new study finds the genetic backgrounds of people in the U.S. are "highly complex" and may differ from their self-defined ...

In a world where Americans often use “ethnic” to mean “not Anglo,” it may not occur to people to think of English as an ethnic group with specific roots in the United Kingdom. Consider an ...

In Nigerian politics, there has long been an informal understanding: presidential appointments should carefully balance the ...

BANGKOK — Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured ... “The Mogok Valley is the largest source of rubies in the world and provides enormous revenue-generating opportunities ...

The Rohingya people are an ethnic group from Myanmar ... minority is considered “the most persecuted minority in the world” by the United Nations. The story of that persecution has its ...

During World War II, more than 11 million soldiers ... the Army began establishing several of these infantry battalions based around ethnic groups. The 99th Infantry Battalion, for instance ...

but the United Nations describes it as “a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or ...

Professional cycling is a sport deeply influenced by its Western European heritage, but that heritage has also set in stone the ethnic makeup ... through the cycling world and beyond in the ...