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Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
In recent years, Shaw’s turn-of-the-twentieth-century drama about the ethics and economics of healthcare has been seen as prescient, prefiguring the establishment of the National Health Service in Britain and the Affordable Care Act in the United States. Even with these developments, modern Colenso Ridgeons still grapple with limited resources,
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Cole Haddon • Charlie Kaufman Reminds Screenwriters Who They Really Work For
Jefferson in his racist generosity allowed that some infusion of European ancestry afforded Africans somewhat greater capacity, but it is quite clear he would have found me, credibly 81 percent African, lacking. I hold instead to what W. E. B. Du Bois said: “I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
was the only Black child with a Black doll,” Hamer recalled. “This gift
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
Roy and the old couple, Harvey and Rita, were the only ones left. They brought Roy to New York when he was barely twenty-five and set him up running “errands” now and again for some heavy people in Brooklyn. As a rule, they didn’t trust him with anything too complicated, on account of they didn’t think Roy was all that bright. Outside of Albert,
... See moreScott Frank • Shaker: A novel
Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Like a white lady with no worry on her mind.”