Culture
Harry Belafonte—Giant of the arts and the struggle for justice and democracy
April 26, 2023Speaking of himself, Belafonte said he was “an activist who became an artist: I was not an artist who became an activist.”
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The real and reel Ava Gardner: What price celebrityhood?
April 25, 2023As a film historian, when I heard a bioplay was being mounted about silver screen siren Ava Gardner at one of L.A.’s finest theaters, the Geffen Playhouse, it was “Westwood Ho!” for moi.
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POETRY: The Tennessee Three speak in We
April 21, 2023A poem in honor of the “The Tennessee Three.”
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‘Until Tomorrow, Comrades’ completes Manuel Tiago translation project: An interview with the translator
April 21, 2023The eighth and final entry in the International Publishers project of issuing all of Manuel Tiago’s fiction in English is hot off the press. Tiago was the pen name for longtime Portuguese Communist Party leader Álvaro...
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Voices unheard in 1776 sing out for representation in touring musical ‘1776’
April 20, 2023The late great Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sometimes asked, “When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?”
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