Elizabeth Alexander and Chimamanda Adichie are writing history Elizabeth Alexander and Chimamanda Adichie have emerged as two literary figures who consistently challenge widely held notions on race, identity, gender and class. For Alexander, a...
Adjaye was the lead designer of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (photo: right), which opened in Washington, D.C. in Sept. 2016. LONDON – On a cool mid-September afternoon in the east London Borough of Hackney...
At the sprawling Potosi Correctional Center in Mineral Point, Mo., 40-year-old Larry Griffin, convicted of murdering a teenager in a 1980 drive-by shooting, was put to death by lethal injection in the early morning hours of June 21, 1995.
Criminal defense attorney Benjamin Brafman remembers when he became an overnight celebrity. No, it wasn’t when his withering cross-examination of the star witness single-handedly destroyed the case against the client. He’s done that...
Nothing beats a good ol’ fashioned tale of triumph over adversity. Take the story of a certain recording star whose budding career was nearly derailed after a terrible incident. His jaw was wired shut.
At first, Wayne McGhie isn’t sure what all the fuss is about. As a late January blizzard hammers southern Ontario, McGhie, 57, is the center of attention inside his sister’s Toronto apartment. Among those who brave the whiteout to see...
When ABC News chairman and former president Roone Arledge died last week after a long bout with cancer, the tributes from journalists were naturally sentimental. And while Arledge would have found it all touching, he would have wasted no time...
Mention the name Malcolm X in mixed company and you’re still liable to arouse passionate feelings – both positive and negative.
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