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In 1975, Bella Abzug went on the "Dinah!" show and questioned what was missing in our democracy at the time. "Maybe we have wars instead of peace, because a whole part of the people are not involved in deciding what should happen to all of ...

Follow the meteoric rise of firebrand politician and activist Bella Abzug. Considered one of the first feminists to be elected to Congress, her commitment to women’s rights and progressive causes upended the status quo in Washington.

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer. The Godfather of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra was deeply committed to inspiring and sustaining the spiritual resilience of Black people through wonder and discombobulation. He saw his music as a portal, with the ...

American Masters and Firelight Media today announced the digital premiere of the fourth season of the documentary short series In the Making. The new season focuses on eight artists across a variety of disciplines whose work explores and influences American culture today. The series will ...

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer. Influence, our social influenza disguised as benevolent magnetism, has become a currency with more value than mundane fiat, its cults of virality are conflated with wealth, power, upward mobility, status— cue a ...

Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates can sound outlandish, even alien to human ears. He took deadpan delight, for instance, ...

Explore the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois. From his birth, just five years after the Emancipation Proclamation; to his death, on the eve of the March on Washington in 1963, his legacy as an activist continues ...

Sun Ra had a profound and lasting influence on members of the Sun Ra Arkestra. In this clip, Arkestra members Marshall Allen, Cheryl Banks-Smith and Alex Blake recount what Sun Ra meant to them.

Sun Ra (1914 – 1993) was a virtuoso, bandleader, teacher, poet, cosmologist, historian, Egyptologist, and community leader. One of the great visionaries of the twentieth century, he believed that music could reshape how people understood the world and themselves. As scholar Brent Hayes Edwards observed, “He ...

Middle school students in Newark grapple with Elie Wiesel's harrowing Holocaust memoir. The short stand-alone film Night in Newark takes place in the 7th grade classroom of the extraordinary teacher Paris Murray and her deeply thoughtful students at the North Star Academy in Newark. Filmed over ...