Culture
Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ is a powerful posthumous act of resistance
May 11, 2018"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”—Zora Neale Hurston
Read moreI was curious, so I saw ‘The Death of Stalin’
May 11, 2018Perhaps Marx was right when he wrote that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce.
Read more‘Blues in the Night’ goes low down to lift you high
May 11, 2018Blues are the cry of a people in pain, and new verses are written every day.
Read more‘Cardboard Piano’ melds themes of intolerance, war, homophobia, and bad religion
May 10, 2018Does forgiveness mean the same thing for the forgiver and the forgiven? Perhaps not.
Read moreSpilling ‘the T’: How Chicago artists are queering up the independent web scene
May 9, 2018'The T' carves out the space required to tell authentic stories as queer, trans, Black, marginalized individuals that also remain true to the specificity of their own narratives.
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