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Now modern interpretive dance is just one of the millions of things I know virtually nothing about. In truth, dance just isn't my thin...

Like so many of the young men who came of age in the late 1960s and early 1979s, Thomas Mallon believes that Richard Nixon was the dominan...

This is a story about how Adolph Hitler's hatred for Jews indirectly helped bring a marvelous new exhibit of more than 140 Mexican mas...

David Simon discuss a scene with cast during shooting The drug-filled scenarios from The Wire were fiction based on reality, but the fac...

Richard Wright in 1928 Richard Wright may have felt invisible in a white-dominated America when he wrote the classic African-American n...

Paul Jennings, born in 1799, was a remarkable American. He came to Washington at age 10, when the nation's capital was more a plan on...

You could examine Craig Taylor's new book about London and Londoners by the numbers. It would read like this. Five years of interviews...

Busboys and Poets owner Andy Shallah prepares the program They came - the full-figured homeless woman who distributes her newspaper; the...

A Civil Rights Trio: John Lewis, Julian Bond and Eleanor Norton Holmes For John Lewis, one of the most beaten, bloodied, but never bowe...

Ball and Chain by Thomas Hank Willis When Darrel Walker was growing up in the tough projects of  Chicago in the 1960s, he remembers that...

Rosa Parks in limewood sculpture From the days leading up to the American Revolution to today's various Occupy movements, a crucial ...

The Artist - A silent salute to the best picture of 2012? As you are reading this post, the 2012 Oscar race has become old news. The win...

What if a well-intentioned angel grabbed the power to start our world all over again. With new light. And a new tree of knowledge. And a n...

From the 3-note beginning riff of "Satisfaction" to their maybe-to-be 50th anniversary tour this year, the Rolling Stones have ...