Our right wing friends probably got the idea for the 'Tortilla Curtain' from what happened 49 years ago today, the start of constru...

For much of my life, the Berlin Wall was part of the world I grew up in. It was created on August 13, 1961, eight months before I was bo...

While we were sleeping on this side of the Pond, the Germans were headed to the polls today. The results were the opposite of what happened...

No matter where we reside in the world as part of the African Diaspora, sooner or later, despite our best efforts, racism will rear its ugly...

22 year old German tennis player Sarah Gronert was born intersex, had surgery to correct her ambiguous genitalia, and identifies as and was ...

Germany's transgender community has an interesting and tumultuous history. In 1930 the first surgery was performed there in Berlin with...

In a December 2007 post I talked about the retirement of junior world record holding German pole vaulter Yvonne Buschbaum from internationa...

German Olympian Yvonne Buschbaum, the world junior record holder in the pole vault, announced her retirement November 21 from the sport. She...