Culture
Year of the strike: From Broadway to Boston
June 17, 2019The CPUSA was born amidst a wave of labor action, with strike waves sweeping the country.
Read more
Centering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51
April 30, 2019Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.
Read more
“Our Lady on fire, France in tears”—Notre Dame blaze horrifies world
April 16, 2019The French Communist Party said the cathedral was “a collective work of architects, workers, craftsmen, and builders” who over centuries had “carved a jewel.”
Read more
Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’: Los Angeles bilingual production travels to Houston
April 16, 2019With a new libretto written by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw and Houston’s Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura, the production presents the Madame Butterfly story as if it actually occurred in Nagasaki sometime...
Read more
Raptors’ Siakam makes his case as NBA’s most improved player
April 8, 2019Pascal Siakam confidently launches shots he may not have dared attempt in previous seasons.
Read more