Across the internet, Afghan women are committing what would be a crime in their homeland, ruled by the Taliban: They're singing, like Fatima Etimadi, 34, and her girlfriends, belting out this defiant ...

Watch the reactions as this singer shares her testimony in rendition of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." ...

Afghan women have turned to social media to protest the latest draconian edict issued by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, which the Biden administration says is aimed at erasing them completely from ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Caught in the storm of a persistent lack of representation and the recent reckoning of certain high-profile abusers, women have historically occupied a shaky space in music. Though women’s status in ...

MEXICO CITY – Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women ...

Each author who makes the setting as much a character as the people who inhabit the story brings a different set of sensibilities, atmosphere and focus to their novels. Five writers can write about ...

It’s one of the unspoken norms of soccer on the world stage: National teams sing their national anthems at major international tournaments. Your opponents all sing. The Dutch women that you faced off ...

A new morality law is full of restrictions. No neckties for men. Photos cannot be reproduced. The harshest rules are for women — who are singing... Afghan women sing to protest a law that orders them ...