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 ...

The World’s Fair Pavillion was vibrant April 9 with the sounds of Chicago’s Gypsy Fire vocalists and a mixture of accordion, keyboard, cymbalon and violin melodies. Spontaneous dance circles formed ...

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, ...

The exhibition “Barvalo” is billed as the first show of its kind to combine contributions from multiple Romani artists and curators. They are sharing their culture on their own terms. By Constant ...

In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith Pinho received a tip from Paulina Stevens. Paulina said she had grown up in an insular Romani community in California, where she was raised to be a wife, mother and ...

An activist for the rights of Romani people and a writer, Sally Cortés hails from Alicante, Spain, where she studied Hispanic ...

This article, written by Artur Ferreira and Amanda Oliveira, was originally published on May 30, 2025, on the Agência Mural website. An edited version is published on Global Voices as part of a ...

However, in the 1920s and 1930s, over approximately 15 years, the leadership of the USSR pursued a policy of democratic development for minorities, which extended to the Romani people. Romani public ...

April 8 is known as International Romani Day, marking Romani communities’ survival and resistance through centuries of persecution. The date commemorates a historic meeting of activists in 1971 ...

I grew up along Romania’s Black Sea coast. My father was the first in his family to graduate from university, and my mother went to a vocational school. Being educated was unusual in our Romani ...

People who know the suspect described a “weird and angry” loner who wrote erotic poetry, and whose resentments ranged across the political spectrum. By Andrew Higgins The Nazis paid the national rail ...

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 ...