Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped ...

Over 250 educators, students, and families gathered for the 36th annual Sankofa Conference to celebrate Black history and ...

After the child naming ceremony, puberty rites are the next set of rituals of ... as much prominence as that for young women. In the Akan culture women represent the beauty, purity and dignity ...

The Poy Sang Long celebration is a vibrant three-day ritual before boys of Myanmar's Shan people enter monastic life for up to one month Dressed in flowers, finery and make-up, scores of boys were ...

These rites of passage were considered the price of success, but Generation Z isn’t having it. This new generation of workers is questioning the traditions their parents and older co-workers ...

As you move through the retirement process, you can expect to go through most, if not all, of the following rites of passage. At some point, people realize that, yes, they can retire. Perhaps they ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Some of the elders who attended the rite of passage ceremony at Mbale Municipality Grounds ...

During these three interrelated rites of passage, a group or age-set of Maasai boys pass together from being children to being morans (warriors), then adults and then elders. Enkipaata is a ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped ...