In this article, the terms “Gypsies” and “Roma” are used interchangeably, but there are differences. “Roma,” the preferred term internationally, is not actually as inclusive, as there are some Gypsy ...

Tired of reading soap opera subtitles to his wife while watching TV, Costel Pitigoi gave her an order: Learn to read them yourself. So Maria Pitigoi joined 29 other women in this town’s Gypsy enclave ...

Can’t wait to check out 'The Forgotten Genocide: Europe's Gypsies in World War II' at home? Here are streaming and cable services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can pick what ...

Each summer the English upland town of Appleby-in-Westmorland hosts a spontaneous week-long ‘happening’. It’s the event of the year for a culture with an unsettled past—and an uncertain future. A man ...

This city is full of stark, Soviet-era housing blocks, and the grimmest among them — gray towers of one-room apartments with communal bathrooms and no hot water — are given over to the Roma population ...

The French government's decision to deport Roma immigrants back to Romania and Bulgaria has rankled some of France's European neighbors. Ben Barnier of Global Post reports on the controversial ...

Pope Francis listens to men sing during a meeting with Italy’s Roma, Sinti and Gypsy communities at the Vatican May 9, 2019. (Credit: CNS Photo/Vatican Media via Reuters.) Listen ROME – Few things ...

CHOISY-LE-ROI, France - At age 8, Abel Bot is starting school a bit late. The past few weeks have been a crash course in how to be a schoolboy: how to hold a pencil, to raise a hand in class, to ...

Gypsies from across Europe gathered Monday at Auschwitz to remember hundreds of thousands of their murdered ancestors and to call for wider recognition of their suffering in the Nazi Holocaust. The ...

When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a ...