Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. There has never ...

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In October 2021, the artist Serge Attukwei Clottey watched anxiously as a painting he had made just a few months earlier went ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art came alive with tributes to Black history, culture and style as the annual Met Gala got ...

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Cardinal Robert Prevost, considered a surprise choice for leader of the Catholic Church, has spent most of his career as a ...

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