Culture
Working-class Mexican narratives on stage in Meet Juan(ito) Doe
March 16, 2018The cast boasts a plethora of fresh faces, many of whom are new to acting but can compare favorably to a Broadway veteran any day.
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“Facing the Rising Sun”: Book illuminates history of Afro-Asian solidarity
March 16, 2018Historian Gerald Horne shows how U.S. expansionist policy boomeranged and drove Negroes, Japanese, and Filipinos together, laying the foundation for an Afro-Asian alliance against white supremacy.
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Stormy weather, creativity, love ands laughs in “El Niño”
March 15, 2018El Niño beautifully reveals not only the importance of romantic love and the part it plays in one’s self esteem, but in how these dynamics affect the creative process.
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“The Madres”: One family’s story of Argentina’s “disappeared”
March 15, 2018What if your kids were disappearing, and all you hear is, “We’re ensuring democracy for future generations: Love of country, unity of the people, the same mind, the same values?”
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Best-known theoretical physicist of his time, Stephen Hawking, dies
March 14, 2018“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”
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