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The movie’s got Sly and the Family Stone and B.B. King and Ray Barretto and Gladys Knight & the Pips, in top, electric form. But no jolt compares to what happens in the middle of this thing— footage from the Harlem Cultural Festival.

Stephen Colbert tentatively celebrated breaking news on Thursday afternoon that New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer with a “sweeping and audacious illegal payment scheme” of tax-related crimes.

The Pulitzer-prize winning poet Stephen Dunn died last week on his 82nd birthday. This poem reminds us that if life isn’t fair, there’s still kindness, even love.

The late New Yorker staff writer focused on divided selves and the complexity of relationships. Adept with the power of words, she was unsentimental about them, writing as if one could say something crushing without leaving that person crushed.

This new book explores the coalition aspect of King's politics, through which he pursued his broader vision of social and economic equality.

American movies and TV are making major strides in LGBTQ representation, but storytellers abroad are in many ways ahead of the curve, exploring sexuality and relationships with groundbreaking technique, in ways often coded and ahead of their time.

A grassroots project to build biomass-heated greenhouses aims to alleviate food insecurity in the communities most affected by it.

Physical spends a lot of time pinning aerobics to capitalism and how it would violate the leftist politics the protagonist thinks she stands for.

“Truth is we know when someone’s lying,” says the poet Hayden Saunier about some press conference. Then what do we do about it?

With Islamophobia rife in Europe and the Western hemisphere and with France’s center and far-right parties weaponizing laicity and scapegoating refugees, it’s time for engaged readers to reacquaint themselves with Rodinson’s classic study.