Culture
This week in history: The bicentennial of Karl H. Marx
May 2, 2018This poem appeared in The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse, edited by Alan Bold, 1970.
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‘ICE’: A family-friendly food truck play about immigration
April 30, 2018“Here we have two immigrants trying to figure out how to become ‘American’ and what that means,” says Debbie Devine, director of the world premiere production of Leon Martell’s play ICE, now on stage at the...
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Scholars mark milestones along past utopian roads to the future
April 27, 2018One had to smile with a certain sense of bemused indulgence at some tongue-twisting, mind-bending lecture titles that university folk like to devise.
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Montgomery, Alabama: New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims
April 26, 2018The museum explores the eras of enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow to mass incarceration and modern criminal justice issues that are the focus of the Equal Justice Initiative's legal work. Several of the organization's clients are featured,...
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‘Ameryka’: a thrilling play about 250 years of American and Polish history
April 26, 2018Ameryka is a moving, educational piece of theatre that is highly watchable both for its freshly nonlinear content and its ingenious stagecraft.
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