Culture

Documentary ‘The Boys Who Said No!’ recalls anti-draft, anti-war movement
March 17, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
A highly effective and moving new documentary about the young American men who refused to be sucked into the maw of the Selective Service System during the Vietnam War has just appeared.
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‘Making it’ in America as pure fantasy: Ayad Akhtar’s ‘Homeland Elegies: A Novel’
March 17, 2021 By Joel Wendland-Liu
The book jacket describes Homeland Elegies as “[p]art family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel.”
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Attractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021 By Eric A. Gordon
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
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Amy Poehler’s new film ‘Moxie’: Growing up female in 2020
March 12, 2021 By Michael Berkowitz
Amy Poehler’s new Netflix film Moxie is not perfect. But it is very, very good. It’s a smart, funny, entertaining look at how growing up female in 2020 is similar and different from growing up in...
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African-American playwright August Wilson honored on ‘forever’ stamp
March 11, 2021 By Special to People’s World
The 44th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors playwright August Wilson (April 27, 1945-October 2, 2005), the “the theater’s poet of Black America,” who brought fresh perspectives and previously unheard voices to the American stage....
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