Culture
‘Rustin’ review: A vital spotlight on an overlooked and complex civil rights hero
October 6, 2023The openly gay, former Quaker, one-time communist, Black man was no marginal figure to the movement, but one of the key players who helped to organize the historic 1963 March on Washington.
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Native Guitars Tour in Nashville: A first for Indigenous music in the South
October 4, 2023This is a musical community on the move.
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Sean O’Casey’s three revolutionary plays staged in New York and Ann Arbor
October 3, 2023Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people. In Ireland, O’Casey is (unfairly) best...
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‘I Was a Red Priest’: Christianity on socialism’s side during the Cold War
October 2, 2023I Was a Red Priest: Memories and Testimonials offers through its protagonist a Christian social analysis that is now minimized but was widely held in the post-World War II era.
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‘How It’s Gon’ Be’: A young Black artist starts figuring it out
September 29, 2023LOS ANGELES — “I wanted to capture the heart of a young artist trying to figure out where he fits in,” playwright JuCoby Johnson explains. “These characters each have a deep love for one another that...
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