Culture
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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‘Gehenna’: Horror film uses the supernatural to show terrors of colonialism and war
April 25, 2018Set in Saipan, the new horror flick "Gehenna" turns the Hollywood trope of "magical natives" on its head.
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Particular or universal? ‘Bad Jews’ dramatizes an old cultural and religious dilemma
April 25, 2018In the brutally, savagely dark comedy Bad Jews, now playing at the Odyssey Theatre, playwright Joshua Harmon puts a contemporary spin on a very old question that haunts any community that seeks to preserve its culture...
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The dark truths about child labor in books for children
April 24, 2018With International Workers' Day upon us, let's not forget those who gave up what should have been the best times of their lives to the rapacious capitalist system - children.
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