They were four women — three U.S.-born girls and their German-American mother — living behind enemy lines when war broke out. The place was Leipzig, Germany, in the early 1940s.

At the Phoenix ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in August 2009, a woman named Ibo brought in a painting titled Silberne Sterne (Silver Stars) by Lyonel Feininger, an American-born artist who spent most of his ...

In my own case, I was born in 1986 to a White German mother and a Black father from Ghana. My parents met at a nightclub popular with Black American GIs in Berlin.

African Americans had limited options when serving in the United States military during the war. ... Franklin's only African American WWI veteran. Matthew Novosad. For The Bulletin. Homer Eugene ...

Unlike Beyrle, who fought with distinction with both the U.S. and Russian Armies, the Czech schoolboy was forced into service with both the Germany and Russian Armies. Bohunicky would go to war ...

The American dream promises upward mobility. But a child born in poverty in America is more likely to face poverty in adulthood than in many Western countries. Academic researchers say a stronger ...

Two American tourists who police say were attacked – one fatally – while hiking in Germany were identified as recent graduates of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to the ...

There is no such thing as “Mr. Yoga,” but there was a “Mr. Pilates.” Joseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1883. Living in England at the outbreak of WWI, Pilates was interned as an ...

February 09, 2023 at 1:39 pm PST. Just one day after WW published a story about him, Portland-born linebacker and filmmaker Nick Alfieri announced he is retiring from his American football team in ...

Josephine Apraku, who is Black and German, writes that over the years, “Black Germans have faced the challenge of figuring out where we fit in the African diaspora.” ...