At the T-shirt table, Merrill greets me warmly, and we compare the T-shirt sizes, holding them up against one another. ‘Who ...

Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...

Soundstreams has revealed the company's 43rd season, opening this November with Sarah Kirkland Snider's poignant choral work ...

Despite stark ideological differences, Iran’s Islamic regime and the Trumpist movement share similar tactics: wielding fear, ...

Haim Sokol has more identity issues than most. That informs his new exhibition currently on show at the Wild Gallery in the ...

It was used shamelessly to promote the Northern war effort. Whatever its literary flaws, Read's poem captured one image ... burning the valley's crops. "A crow," he reported, "would have had ...

Two decades after Brown v. Board, the Supreme Court struck down a desegregation order—and paved the way for today’s retrenchment efforts.

Michael B. Jordan plays twin hustlers in “Sinners,” an extraordinary musical horror fable.

She was a privileged daughter in a wealthy and politically prominent Atlanta family at the height of The Lost Cause myth, which argued that the South’s involvement in the Civil War was about ...

After the war, he co-founded Simmons College in Louisville. In the poem “Grapevine,” Marrs ... by the white supremacist forces of Jim Crow laws. “It’s hard not to think about living ...

After the Civil War, 18 veterans of the United States Colored ... Maryland passed Jim Crow laws as early as 1870. Sporadic lynchings on the Eastern Shore began in the 1890s.