Book Review: Mightier Than The Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America by David S. Reynolds
April 21, 2024The escalating one-upmanship led to some truly bizarre innovations, such as casting famous boxers in the...
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
March 12, 2024Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Book Review: Where the Dark and the Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics, and Business of Jazz by Randall Sandke
February 7, 2024Sandke offers no critical commentary about this piece of advice that was given Armstrong after he...
Movie Review: Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire
January 4, 2024Comedian Mo’Nique, best known for urban comedies like Phat Girlz and Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins, gives...
Nina Simone: The Biography by David Brun-Lambert
December 23, 2023The granddaughter of slaves on both parents’ sides of the family, Simone’s stardom coincided with the...
Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
December 16, 2023For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill
December 15, 2023Dominique’s worst luck was to have been born in Houston, Texas, the principal city of Harris...
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
December 14, 2023When confronted with Cotton in a police lineup, Thompson had nary a shred of doubt that...
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
December 11, 2023Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...