April 8 is known as International Romani Day, marking Romani communities’ survival and resistance through centuries of persecution. The date commemorates a historic meeting of activists in 1971 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fortune telling isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people, it’s a survival trade rooted in their culture, shares ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s policies affecting the Roma minority have put those voters in play in upcoming parliamentary elections. In a tight race, they could make the difference. By Lara Jakes and ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. On Jan. 27, Peoples Church Unitarian Universalist held a Holocaust Remembrance Service for the Romani ...

I grew up along Romania’s Black Sea coast. My father was the first in his family to graduate from university, and my mother went to a vocational school. Being educated was unusual in our Romani ...

It's a lesser-known chapter of the Holocaust, the murder of some 500,000 Roma and Sinti people, members of a long-marginalized and often persecuted minority in Europe. One way into that history is ...

The Roma arrived in Europe hundreds of years ago from present-day Rajasthan in northern India—and they still aren’t welcome in many quarters. For centuries their lot has been hatred and prejudice, ...

(The Conversation) — Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities. (The Conversation) — When the ...

The World’s Fair Pavillion was vibrant April 9 with the sounds of Chicago’s Gypsy Fire vocalists and a mixture of accordion, keyboard, cymbalon and violin melodies. Spontaneous dance circles formed ...

Scientists have identified a number of alarming issues with genetic studies of Europe’s long-persecuted Romani people, with an op-ed published Wednesday by the leading science journal Nature pointing ...

Fortune telling isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people, it’s a survival trade rooted in their culture, shares Jezmina Von Thiele. Courtesy of Aurora Rose Decosta Gypsyfortuneteller is ...