Mr. Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, celebrated the city’s diversity and pledged to govern ...

Richard Smallwood, the eight-time Grammy-nominated, classically trained gospel composer and recording artist whose work reshaped contemporary gospel music, died Dec. 30 at age 77 from complications of ...

As “Auld Lang Syne” takes its annual spin around the globe on New Year’s Eve, its chorus belted out by revelers young and old, Edinburgh’s Poet Laureate Michael Pedersen says the song’s enduring power ...

The tradition in Scotland is to sing the song on Hogmanay — their word for the New Year’s celebrations — with everyone ...