Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass are the latest subjects of a filmmaker long-engaged in telling the contributions and challenges of…
Jeffrey Brown
Singer Linda Ronstadt sold millions of records, performed for over four decades and made history as the first woman to…
Legendary country singer Loretta Lynn died Tuesday at age 90, leaving a legacy of more than six decades of boundary-breaking…
Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year's Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel "Afterlives" is…
Hilary Mantel died Thursday at age 70 near her home in Exeter, England. She authored 17 books, but it was…
The new Netflix comedy "Mo" is gaining acclaim for its portrayal of Arab American life rarely presented in popular culture.…
To bring awareness to the global crisis of migration and refugees, a theater project is using a different kind of…
A new documentary from Ken Burns and his colleagues premiers this Sunday on PBS. It is a different window into…
Legendary French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard died Tuesday at his home in Switzerland. Beginning in the late 1950s and into the…
A new collaboration between the U.S. Army and the Smithsonian Institution is expanding the numbers and capabilities of monuments officers…
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