W.E.B. Du Bois asked in his 1897 essay “The Conservation of Races” a question that would split African American communities from then on: “What, after all, am I? Am I an American or am I a Negro?...

A person’s identity is a complex, multifaceted thing yet is often viewed through a very simple, shallow lens. Identity is one of humanity’s great conundrums. The Oxford English Dictionary defines...

A culture’s core values can be derived from its humor, an indicative measure of what people find important. Humor, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is “that quality of action, speech,...