On September 6, 1919, New York theater owners and striking actors sign an agreement to end a bitter and acrimonious strike based around the really horrific working conditions the actors faced, transfo
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare’s 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all, has been dead some 402 years but he is still very much a
Finally, a well-deserved pushback to the politics of the Hamilton musical is happening. The show does include one named black character, Sally Hemings, who appears in a quick cameo that lands mainly a
The Jedi Principle runs so: If you need the Jedi in order to make your project work, don’t start. The Jedi Principle comes to mind in the context of defenses of US support for the 2006 Ethiopi
It’s certainly possible that Neanderthal X died in a violent confrontation with modern humans. However, I think that there’s always a danger in reading our own social understandings into a
The national dialogue on race continues inside Mister Leonard Pierce’s head. One of these days, someone — more specifically, someone who is not me — should compile a list of the memo