Even those who long for one world may wish The Namesake would lighten up. Following one immigrant family across decades, The Namesake is an eventful yet overly familiar drama about homeland ties ...

In Northern states, according to a review of federal data, very few schools had Confederate namesakes. But many school boards voted to drop names of controversial presidents, such as James ...

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent ...

Names change all the time, for scientific and cultural reasons, and given a choice between stability and respect for people whose ancestors were harmed by early ornithologists, ...