Culture
For Black History Month: Recalling poet Paul Laurence Dunbar
February 13, 2018He wrote poetry, short stories, five novels, and a play. He also wrote lyrics for the first musical written and performed entirely by African-Americans to appear on Broadway.
Read moreTackling Trump on stage, page, and workout videos
February 12, 2018Covering Trump in a variety of media is now a cottage industry. But the faux workout video was innovative.
Read moreMachinists spearhead ‘new wave’ of union music for working people
February 8, 2018"The hard part is getting people to listen (to the labor songs on the CDs) to the message. But music is a great communicator.”
Read moreWe who would be king: Gilbert and Sullivan’s utopian “The Gondoliers”
February 7, 2018While all of Gilbert & Sullivan’s work pointedly skewers the British class and caste system with a poison-tipped pen, none goes quite so far as The Gondoliers in actually offering a blueprint for the classless society.
Read more“Bombing Wall Street”: Yesterday and today
February 6, 2018The rise of Hoover, immigrant phobia, and the clash of capital and labor in the 1910s and 20s presaged our current conflicts.
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