Martin Luther King Jr.

“I was born with stories.” During the 2007 National Book Festival, Shelia Moses took the stage at the Library of Congress. Before she [...]

May 31, 2017

International Women’s Day is March 8th. In the spirit of the occasion, it seems appropriate to consider watching a movie with a woman [...]

March 8, 2017

Their romance begins innocently enough. Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike) and her sister, Muriel (Laura Carmichael, Edith from Downton Abbey), [...]

February 17, 2017

In an October 2014 edition of The New Yorker, Jennifer Gonnerman wrote about sixteen-year-old Bronx resident, Kaleif Browder, who, in the [...]

April 13, 2016

In his time, Lyndon Johnson had a reputation for being brash, ruthless, and, at times, crude. Compared to what we’ve witnessed in the [...]

April 12, 2016