Literary scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin discusses how Black yearning keeps surviving in the face of racist violence.
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History is filled with talented directors, many of whom are active today (directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, ...
In the early 2000s, theatremaker Mahmood Farooqui was drawn to the efforts of his uncle, the late Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, to ...
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For four decades, the USA has officially celebrated Black History Month, but efforts to honor African American history in February go back a century.
What’s up, Kreon?” isn’t something you’d hear in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Antigone,” written in 440 B.C. But in Anne ...
“Who writes the poetry?” In 1864 he decided to find out ... rooms of “Cupid’s Manufactory,” describing the variety of processes by which various styles of cards were made for a range of different ...