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The Tech Bro has become Hollywood’s go-to villain. Now, TV is finally grappling with Silicon Valley’s complex female entrepreneurs

A Message for Black History month: “The Weary Blues,” Langston Hughes's classic poem, is now in the public domain: “The stars went out and so did the moon.”

Douglass refused to cede the Constitution to the slaveholders. He insisted the Constitution did not sanction slavery, that natural law and the Constitution assured liberty, and political action would be necessary to destroy slavery and secure freedom

This book shows how the country's anti-slavery sentiment based its views an abolitionist reading of the Constitution, and how that understanding influenced Lincoln's thinking.

Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth. The past can’t be changed. But if we won’t tell the truth about it, we can’t learn from it. We can’t even understand ourselves.

African American food culture is one of many aspects of African American identity that represents an unbroken line from Africa to present-day America.

The Afterparty is just one of several new comedies about stressed-out millennials finding themselves trapped in a murder mystery. So what is it about this generation that makes them all want to star in an Agatha Christie story?

Mississippi poet Philip Kolin depicts the crushing of the Black community in Tulsa, OK one century ago.

The stories in Standing Up are linked thematically and appear in chronological order, beginning with 1970. For those of us who have similarly spent time as organizers, the book feels like an anthropological field trip into the past.

It is tempting to harness “Civilization and Its Discontents” as a guide to our contemporary political morass, but doing so may obscure its most valuable message.