If there were such a thing as African American royalty, Esther Scott Carter II is andwill eternally be, Queen Esther. Born June 17, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Judge Russell Luther Carter, Sr. and ...

More than two thousand years ago, in the kingdom of Persia—modern-day Iran—a young Jewish woman found herself in a palace she did not choose, in a position she did not seek, facing a moment that would ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — Since its inclusion in the Hebrew Bible, the Book of Esther has been embraced in different ways and in different times by Jews and Christians around the world. RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS ...

Of all the Jewish holidays, I love Purim the most. It’s a festive holiday that falls on the 14th day of Adar. We celebrate how Queen Esther saved the Jewish people. Warned by her uncle Mordechai, ...

In the final chapter of the Book of Esther, the book itself is described as an iggeret, a letter. This is an unusual term for a work that ultimately would become part of Scripture. Rather than being ...

Purim is a joyous Jewish holiday celebrating the deliverance of the Jewish people from a genocide plot in ancient Persia. The holiday is often misunderstood as "Jewish Halloween" because observers ...

After the news broke Sept. 8 about the queen's death, social media erupted with baseless rumors — some wacky enough to make us do a double-take. Here are five we've debunked so far. Queen Elizabeth II ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Tonight, we hear from the man our hometown hero, hunter girdner, saved in operation epic fury.A team of five defense contractors had been sen Pensacola man critically hurt in ...

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, is getting no help from the throne as the crisis over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein intensifies. By Sarah Lyall Sarah Lyall was a correspondent in The ...

The Queen has met French rape survivor, Gisele Pelicot, and told her she was left "speechless" by the account of her ordeal in her new memoir. Ms Pelicot was drugged and raped by her ex-husband, who ...

Queen (L-R): Brian May, John Deacon, Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury. Following the reissue of Queen’s 1973 self-titled debut album from two years ago, the band has recently announced the upcoming ...

Queen set to release a remastered and expanded version of their second studio album, Queen II. The release will come as a 5CD+2LP Queen II Collector's Edition box set and features the 2026 mix of the ...