A new book about the abolitionist movement puts African Americans in the center of the history of our country's movement to end slavery.
There is something deeply shameful in the fact that even today a young Nina Simone would have a hard time being cast in her own biopic. The new film "Nina" proves that the world still isn’t ready to tell her story.
Health-conscious millennials favor small companies disrupting the food system, trading out mass food brands and chains for unique, local, and fresh food experiences. They expect higher quality and want to be closer to their food—knowing where it comes from and who made it. Small food startups are in tune with this new food culture, telling engaging stories about their products, their ingredients, and how they’re made.
The specter of biological warfare, and the fate of Philip and Elizabeth’s daughter, plunge the FX spy drama deeper into darkness.
"Letters from Langston: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and Beyond" is both a compilation of an intriguing exchange of letters among five heroic African Americans and a loving tribute to the letter writers from the daughters of four of the writers: Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson.
In this new book, Thomas Frank offers an analysis of today's Democratic Party that should serve as a cautionary tale for its supporters in this election year. Writing from the United Kingdom, Adam Barnett offers an appraisal of Frank's findings.
Brilliant, tedious and irredeemably evil, Leni Riefenstahl’s "Triumph of the Will" (1935) is one of the great conundrums of cinema history. Now released on DVD.
Some grated Parmesan suppliers have been mislabeling products by filling them with too much cellulose, a common anti-clumping agent made from wood pulp.
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