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Before he was a Bolshevik: Claude McKay’s radicalization is subject of new book
November 22, 2023McKay spoke for a new generation of Black radicals, as distinguished historian Winston James shows.
Read more‘The Morning Show’ and ‘Lessons in Chemistry’: Women at Work
November 21, 2023The Morning Show and Lessons in Chemistry are a step in the right direction of highlighting women in the workforce.
Read moreRace relations North/South, today/yesterday, city/plantation
November 17, 2023NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Opera (NOO) promoted its production of Blue as “the southern premiere of the most talked-about new American opera.” I’d been meaning to get back to the Crescent City to see it...
Read moreW.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes texts set to music by Margaret Bonds
October 26, 2023Textually and musically, we can be grateful that these stunning works can now be heard and appreciated.
Read moreSean O’Casey’s three revolutionary plays staged in New York and Ann Arbor
October 3, 2023Seán O’Casey, regarded as the first proletarian dramatist writing in English, made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of all working people. In Ireland, O’Casey is (unfairly) best...
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