Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeles

In April 1903, the steamship Republic spills more than two thousand immigrants onto Ellis Island. Among them are Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, nine, sent by t

A collection of writings by the seminal modernist includes poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts from her novels.

Also known as the mother of African unity, Kimpa Vita attempted to unify the Kongo Kingdom through her Antonianist movement, but was eventually sentenced to dea