Culture
“Poetry that Gives Birth to Revolution”
January 15, 2014"We need powerful empowering poetry..."
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Amiri Baraka, preeminent poet and activist, dies at age 79
January 10, 2014Amiri Baraka, one of the country's preeminent African American poets, playwrights and activists died Thursday at Newark's Beth Israel Hospital after a brief illness.
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“Club Red”: Vacation, Soviet-style
December 19, 2013Koenker also paints a vivid, detailed picture of a government sincerely attempting to live up to its promise of "the good life" for its citizens.
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Top 10 worst sequels and remakes of 2013
December 18, 2013Here are ten films that make a compelling case for why Hollywood has come down not only with severe sequelitis, but remake-itis as well.
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Black superheroes forever changed comic books
December 17, 2013Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes does a great job of introducing many of today's comic book fans with the history of African Americans in comic books and pop culture generally.
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