The documentary ‘Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)’ explores the meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Sly & The Family Stone — a band that defined a new era in the 1960s, led by a frontman as brilliant as he was erratic
Several documentaries examine a decade that turned out to be a turning point in history. The progressive social values that were first mooted then are now under attack from the far right, though not for the first time
Filmmaker Jordan Peele selects his favorite Black authors in ‘Out There Screaming,’ an anthology of stories. The book serves as the cultural industry’s spearhead against racial clichés
The Motown artist met a tragic end on April 1, 1984, when his father shot him in the middle of a family argument with the gun that he himself had given him
Archpriest Andrei Kordochkin, suspended from service in Madrid for his pacifist positions, officiated at a ceremony for the deceased opponent Alexei Navalny in Germany, from where he urges Russians to ‘study all forms of non-violent resistance’
“We can’t let hate prevail, and it’s on the rise. It’s not diminishing,” Biden said at the White House as he met with civil rights advocates and the children of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
‘He was one of the few presidents who really was an advocate for the Black community out of a pureness of heart,’ said the Rev. Bernice King, who leads the King Center that her mother founded
Two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence. They’re being heralded as living echoes of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s
The vice president will be joined by former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, a senior adviser to the president for public engagement, and Mitch Landrieu, a White House senior advisor
The civil rights activist, gunned down in Memphis in 1968 as he advocated for better pay and working conditions for the city’s sanitation workers, would have celebrated his 94th birthday Sunday
Religion colors everything in American politics, from the abortion debate to the rise of far-right Christian nationalism, and it’s all on display in Georgia’s Senate race