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Espionage has always been with us, but its rapid growth over the past century may have undermined trust in government.
You would think a sci-fi series created by Steven Spielberg and legendary Star Trek producer Harve Bennett would be ...
In his new book about Malcolm X, Mark Whitaker deftly outlines the slain Black activist's wide-ranging cultural influence and ...
If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would look something like this: “Goodnight Moon,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.” For many of us poetry ...
One of his items is an edition of “The History of the Negro Race in America” by George Washington Williams, which was written in 1880 and is among the first books to document Black American ...
Sepideh Ashrafi has translated the book and Maaref Publication has brought it out in ... the first African refugee, the first Somali-American, and one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.
Our plucky, resilient, inventive yet no-nonsense heroine is no angel, yet seems to be protected by her own guardian angel.
so pop art is profoundly American,” a passage in the book reads. Various recognizable names pop up on the pages, flitting in and out of Warhol’s life: Salvador Dali, the Velvet Underground ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to the National Museum of African American History and ...
Karp pointed to a collaborative collection of books focused on music kicking off with Cumbia Somos by Enrique Blanc, which covers a popular Latin American music genre. The books are being ...
Andy Warhol, probably the most important artist to emerge from the 1960s American avant-garde, is one example. His nervous face peering beneath a shock of white hair is as signature as his ...
This year's Costume Institute spring exhibition and Met Gala are honouring black "dandy" style, and the tradition of bold ...