We explore how contemplating our heritage can make us feel more belonging, gratitude, and confidence in what we're capable of achieving. Oral historian Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz knows the profound impact ...

Becca Stanek is an experienced writer and editor who is passionate about exploring the ways we can feel better mentally and physically to get the most out of our lives. She has worked for publications ...

Maybe it’s because 23andMe claimed I have “more Neanderthal DNA than 81 percent of other customers.” (That’s only ~2 percent of my genes, but my older brother happily quipped he could tell me I’m a ...

A researcher who has lived and worked with hunter-gatherer tribes said we can learn from premodern societies how to live ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. We had reached the top of a sandstone mesa when Theresa ...

Connecting to their ancestors through veneration opened access to history for Conejo, who notes many BIPOC individuals and immigrant families’ trauma is a prominent aspect of their history, often ...

Editor’s note: As part of our Juneteenth coverage, Cog interviewed Dawn Meredith Simmons and Maurice Emmanuel Parent, co-founders and co-producing artistic directors of The Front Porch Arts Collective ...

We’ve all heard of generational curses, or generational sin. But what about generational grace? The country each human being is born in is not a coincidence. Our families past and present are gifts ...

Nutrition influencers claim we should eat meat-heavy diets like our ancestors did. But our ancestors didn't actually eat that way When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...