The signs came down almost as fast as they went up: plain white sheets of paper, plastered to a Rowland Heights gas station door, prohibiting Romani women from entering. “No Gypsy women in long ...

From the Hunchback of Notre Dame to My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, public perceptions and stereotypes of Romani people in Europe have remained remarkably consistent. For hundreds of years, the men and ...

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 ...

A Roma woman walks next to the house where a 4-year-old blonde girl lived in Farsala, central Greece, on 19 October, 2013. “The girl looks Scandinavian or could be Bulgarian,” said a police official ...

Anina Ciuciu, a 27-year-old law student who once begged for centimes, is vying to become France's first Roma senator on Sunday. Ciuciu says she wants to "pave the way" for other Roma, a minority who ...