In 2012, an election year, 12,841 citizens of Romania and Bulgaria, nearly all of them Roma, were deported from France, compared with 10,841 in 2011, an increase of 18.4 percent; 9,529 were ...

The main area we didn't have the space to explore was the dynamic currently playing out in the American Roma culture between the younger and older generations, according to sources inside the ...

The nomadic Romani communities that came to Europe centuries ago have been subject to persecution in many of the countries they have settled in.

The Johns family is one of Manhattan's most prominent Romani, or "Gypsy" families. In each episode of this new series, cameras document their efforts to preserve Romani customs amid the vices of ...

People light candles during a commemoration to pay tribute to the six victims of a series of deadly attacks against Roma or Gypsy people in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 23, 2012.

The "Apostle to the Gypsies", as he became known, was by a nature a delegator – happy for others, including Holocaust survivors such as the Romani writer, Matéo Maximoff, who lost 27 members of ...

Gypsies were slaves in Romania until roughly the same time in the 19th century when African American slaves were freed. But the Roma never launched a broad civil rights movement, and today, Bumbu ...

Author Oksana Marafioti's new memoir, American Gypsy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is two success stories in one: one of an immigrant making her way in America, the other of a Gypsy. At 15 ...

Oksana Marafioti spent her childhood touring with her Roma family, a traveling Gypsy ensemble. At 15, life changed drastically when they moved to the U.S. In her memoir, American Gypsy, she ...

The first St. Louis Roma (Gypsy) Festival proved to be a big hit among St. Louis Romani and others. One of the highlights of the day was a dance contest in which children ages 5 and up competed ...