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True Detective: Night Country breaks ground in television's portrayal of Indigenous women and the MMIW crisis. Characters like Kayla Prior and Evangeline Navarro offer a nuanced reflection of resilience, complexity, and societal struggles.

The only African American woman to serve in the Spanish Civil War, nurse Salaria Kea fought racism all of her life.

A century after his birth, EP Thompson’s empathy with those facing scorn and condescension is more relevant than ever. The first paragraph starts: “The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.”

This book, writes reviewer Reeves, "ought to be read by anyone interested in equality, and also anyone interested in people, history, God, politics, religion, nationalism, war or love."

Zone of Interest isn’t just a film about Nazis. This is a film about us.

Scientists are trying to bring flavor back to the tomatoes sold in grocery stores. But how should they taste, exactly?

Loosely based on the 2005 film, the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV reboot uses the action-comedy genre to represent how impossible life is for so many people today, with two misfit unemployables turning to assassin work out of desperation.

The poet C. Liegh McInnis pays homage to the great African American activist, Robert Moses who led the campaign for civil rights in 1960s Mississippi and later the Algebra Project committed to education equality.

Reviewer Seymour, in this reappraisal of this 1967 masterpiece of American and African literature, calls this novel "a what’s-it-to-you red cloak brandished in the collective face of white supremacy."

Bernstein used his status as a public figure both to popularize classical music and to support civil rights, the antiwar movement, and other political causes.