Fortune telling isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people, it’s a survival trade rooted in their culture, shares Jezmina Von Thiele. Courtesy of Aurora Rose Decosta Gypsyfortuneteller is ...

Franz Roselbach, a Roma survivor of the Holocaust who was sent to Auschwitz when he was 15, attends a ceremony at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 2006. Sean Gallup/Getty Images When the ...

The Roma arrived in Europe hundreds of years ago from present-day Rajasthan in northern India—and they still aren’t welcome in many quarters. For centuries their lot has been hatred and prejudice, ...

New Orleans will soon host a unique cultural celebration that shines a light on the rich traditions and resilience of the Romani people. Welcome to Romanistan, a three-day festival taking place from ...

Romani people have been discriminated against and persecuted ever since their first documented appearance in Europe in the 15th century. Their victimization culminated in the Nazi genocide: Hundreds ...

The literary scholar’s The Roma blends a history of Romani persecution and civil rights struggles with her own experiences of discrimination as a Roma woman in Britain. Your book is partly a memoir ...

This piece, written by Mary Drosopoulos and Oana Dumbrava, was first published by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBC Transeuropa) in December 2024. Global Voices has republished an edited ...

Gypsyfortuneteller is still a popular, but unfortunate, Halloween costume. Fortune telling, particularly cartomancy in this case, isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people ― it’s a ...

(The Conversation) — Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities. (The Conversation) — When the ...