The story of the struggle to liberate jazz from the exploitative, white-controlled music industry in 1950s, the seminal events of the movement and backlash from white civil society and the legacy of Black cultural autonomy and resistance.
A new book investigates the lives of the hundreds of thousands of indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the sixteenth century—a story central to the beginning of globalization.
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Maren Morris, a progressive chart-topping country and pop singer known for hits like “The Middle” and “The Bones,” has announced she’s distancing herself from the genre of country music. “After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display.”
The singer-songwriter met the demands of striking SAG-AFTRA, including streaming residuals, to release The Eras Tour documentary.
Orcas attack boats off the coast of Spain. The first battle in an interspecies war? Probably not, but it's a pretty neat look into how trends come and go in orca pods.
Nostalgia is frequently invoked by the reactionary right, but it has its uses on the left. We must reach towards the stars without forgetting all that remains buried in the ground beneath our feet.
While guild members would love to get back to work, the one thing they’re not going to do after months on the picket lines, whatever the studio’s strategic game plan when the strike began, is roll over and play dead.
Hollywood glamour doesn't pay the rent. Many of the people who actually make the movies and television shows we love so much — whose hard work creates stories, sound stages, spectacular costumes, and so much more — are barely scraping by.
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