With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

Statue of Burns in Dumfries town centre, unveiled in 1882. David J Black reminds us just how famous Burns was. See part one ...

Claremont will conduct its portion of the 2025 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count beginning at 7 p.m. at Alexander Hughes ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

Sun City' offers evidence that widespread isolation began long before Americans became absorbed in their phones.

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Comedian Tig Notaro is set to host the 5th annual awards ceremony, which will take place March 31 at the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago. The ceremony will be live streamed on Twitch from 6 p.m ...

The Podcast Academy (TPA), the preeminent professional podcast organization, has announced the nominees for its fifth annual Awards for Excellence in Audio (The Ambies). Hosted by multi-hyphenate ...

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

American Mother,' Diane Foley's and Colum McCann's story of Foley’s life and that of her son, James Foley, is written with a mother’s love, her eventual understanding of hostage situations and her ...

"The story explores themes of trust, ambition and the ethical perils of advanced technology in a shadowy, high-stakes world," ...