Ruth Terry

Turkey is 98.6% Muslim. What does that mean for travelers who may not know much about Islam or the way it's practiced in Turkey?

Due in part to how Western media portrays Muslim countries, some travelers may have concerns about visiting Turkey. In reality, Islam shapes travelers’ experiences in overwhelmingly positive ways — through the indelible impressions it has left on eve...

Transferring wealth to Black-led groups is a particularly potent form of reparations with immediate benefits to communities of color.
Last December, nonprofit executive director Malik Yakini received an unexpected call. The caller, a woman who resides in California, said she wanted to direct a sizeble portion of her inheritance to his organization, the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
This type of windfall is indeed rare, but it was the caller’s motivation—revealed over several ...