As a black person with light-skin privilege, it took me a while to understand that society treats dark-skinned black people with a similar indifference and insensitivity to that which the ugly duckling experienced.

Brazilian author PJ Pereira tells the Fbomb about how his best-selling trilogy of books about the Orishas, gods that are part of the indigenous Yorubá tradition, are helping the belief system be re-examined in Brazilian culture.

In early May, a 19-year-old girl named Noura Hussein was sentenced to death by a court in Sudan. The verdict came after Hussein killed her husband, whom she was forced to marry at 15 and who allegedly raped her.

Many educational institutions in Tunisia — especially those in rural areas, where people are generally more conservative and traditional — separate girls and boys from each other within the same class so that female students won’t mix with the male students.

There is disproportionate rate of HIV infection among young women in sub-Saharan Africa. Here's what you need to know ahead of World AIDS Day.