Due to conflicts over music rights and the high cost of adapting the show to HD, the series had become overshadowed by its…
Can automated restaurants still be community and cultural spaces, or will they become feeding stations for humans? These…
Makeshift memorials are public expressions of private mourning in response to trauma and tragedy.
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A century ago, a pioneering sex researcher challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience…
Clothing and makeup are silent, powerful ways for candidates to tell the American public who they are – and how they’ll…
It’s too reductive to simply smear scabs as sellouts. It’s important to understand why some workers might be motivated…
The choices of author and illustrator Crockett Johnson during the printing process – as well as his civil rights advocacy…
Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction…
As the Democratic National Convention returns to Chicago, there’s an appetite in that city to revisit films from the bloody…
The author of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and other classic novels used the words ‘slave’ and ‘slavery’ nearly a dozen…
Over the past half-century, American media has usually proclaimed that Black men and white women can be great presidents.…
It happens in journalism and it happens in the arts. But in Congress – where just 2% of representatives held blue-collar…
A musicologist explains how an oft-forgotten opera, pop and jazz singer from New York City launched the country music industry…
A term emerged in the 1980s for a spinal cord injury caused by breaking called ‘break-dancing neck.’
Most sports are organized according to a strict male-female binary. Nature isn’t.
In medieval Europe, vigilantism was rampant. Though there were rudimentary efforts to develop legal frameworks, the precepts…
The six-time platinum-selling artist invites fans into an imagined future that celebrates Blackness and queerness.
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