In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits.

In The Trouble of Color, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family ...

I’m currently leading my freshmen students through a weeks-long seminar on “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” a searingly brutal account of the slavery Douglass endured and ...

“3 Summers of Lincoln” at the La Jolla Playhouse brings you a vibrant musical about a friendship between President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass ... slowed down the narrative instead of ...

An unlikely friendship with the man who wrongly prosecuted Amanda Knox for murder brought her some closure — and the ...

Despite significant progress over the years, the fight against racism and racial discrimination remains as urgent as ever.

Fennell is a kind of Ishmael, observing the slow tragic fall of his Ahab, Conway. Aboard the Georges Lecointe there is an atmosphere of secrecy and eventually discontent, as the men’s access to ...

Full disclosure: your humble correspondent has never seen Hamilton. So I can’t make any sort of informed judgment about whether or not La Jolla Playhouse has succeeded in Hamiltoning Lincoln with its ...

In one black-and-white portrait, abstract painter Cullen Washington Jr. reads “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” In two portraits — one in color, and one in grayscale — a neighbor and ...

Healing a Nation Through Truth and Dialogue DECATUR, Ga. — In a rare and timely conversation at the Porter Sanford III Performing Arts and Community Center, civil rights leader Xernona Clayton, former ...