DEFENSE IS TO SLOW DOWN, ASK QUESTIONS, AND NEVER ACT ON IMPULSE. A LOCAL AUTHOR AND MUSICIAN IS CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH THROUGH MUSIC ONE. NEEDLESS PAIN WE BEAR. THE MARY PAXTON STUDY CLASS ...

Black History Month often centers on America’s largest cities. But smaller and mid-size cities have plenty to offer. Black History Month often centers on America’s largest cities. But some of the most ...

With matter-of-fact precision, “A Hymn to Life” powerfully chronicles the shock of discovering her husband’s sex crimes, and the rallying cry that followed. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...

Love is the leap we must take every day if we’re speaking liberty. Hey, Beautiful, won’t you be my valentine, be my comrade, be my witness? Walk with me in love, and let’s fight for one another in ...

Fi March is Women's History Month! The annual celebration of women's history first began when then President Jimmy Carter designated the week of March 2-8, 1980 as Women's History Week. He said at the ...

The ABA entered the sports world in a time that was ready for a more wide-open brand of professional basketball. Something faster. Something funkier. Something more expressive. Something Blacker. The ...

Black history has never moved in silence; it’s marched, chanted, and sung through generations of resistance, pride, and unapologetic joy. Black power music serves as cultural documentation and ...

Composer Nolan Williams Jr. has long combined faith, culture and the arts in his productions on stage and screen, often centering on African American life. Now, he has created the "Just Like Selma" ...

RICHLAND — Nearly three decades have passed since Energy Northwest, operator of Washington’s sole nuclear power reactor near Richland, changed its name to shed its former identity and move beyond its ...

A replay of WWI is imminent, according to this troubling rumination from historian Westad (The Great Transformation). He argues that today’s geopolitics resembles that of 1914: China is a modern ...

There are only a handful of people alive today who participated in the formation of modern gospel music in Chicago during the 1930s and 1940s. Fewer still worked directly with the genre’s founding ...

What do a compass, the printing press, and an iPhone have in common? More than just being technological marvels of their respective eras, each represents what Scott D. Anthony calls an “epic ...