It seems that almost every day a new story emerges about the consanguinity of Black and white American lives, and yet, given the remaining deep racial divisions, even Black and white members of the ...

Like U.S. history, classical music has become a new front in the culture wars as musicians and music institutions grapple with the legacies of racism. With most performing arts organizations shuttered ...

Back then, foreign directors as diverse as Jean Luc-Godard, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni and Eric Rohmer were stars, as were American counterparts like Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Stanley ...

Soon after I wrote the paragraphs that follow this one, there was the questionable shooting of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager, by (white) Hispanic neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Weeks ...