James Forman Jr. is a professor of law at Yale University and a former public defender. He is the author of “Locking Up Our ...

In 1970, the pastors of Boston’s St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church  and  Union United Methodist Church came together to create the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Breakfast. This year, the annual ...

"The Warriors," both a novel as well as a late 1970’s movie, is now a concept album from the creative minds of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, both of whom have too many credits to name. Eisa Davis ...

It goes on: Angela Davis, 1970s New York, funk, Robert De Niro, The Ramones, Isaac Hayes, Martin Scorsese. Americans whose films I watched, whose albums I listened to and whose books I read.

Four Black artists will perform at Trump’s inauguration, igniting a cultural firestorm about art, politics, and the cost of ...

Rachel Reeves as Angela Rayner appear to giggle together as Mel Stride blasts economic 'mess' in the Commons. The Chancellor laughed and looked at her colleague as the Shadow Chancellor blasted her ...

Huggins’ spirituality and political engagement were intertwined throughout her career with the Black Panther Party and beyond.

Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne and Charles S. Dutton also found early success in Wilson plays. August Wilson wrote “Seven Guitars,” above, starring Viola Davis and Jerome Preston Bates.

Sandra Marie Davis, age 72, of Sturgis, passed away Monday afternoon, January 20, 2025, at her home. She was born July 20, ...

Reilly), Dirk thinks he’s going to rule the porn scene for the rest of the 1970s and 1980s ... Two young girls, Angela Fielding (Lidya Jewett) and Katherine West (Olivia O’Neill), have ...

From slavery to wealth” is the phrase that best describes the story of Barney L. Ford, who was born into slav­ery on this day ...

Unfortunately for a good story—and the existence of the Mafia would be a whale of a story—neither the Senate Crime Committee in its testimony nor Kefauver in his book presented any real evidence that ...