During that year, Mother Ann Lee and her handful of followers, driven by a vision to establish a church in the new world, settled north of Albany after their arrival in New York City and founded what ...

Lana Turner's passion is emphasizing the significance of both Black history and its attendant aesthetic sensibility.

Timothée Chalamet has sparked a big debate after comments about ballet and opera. During a talk at the University of Texas with Matthew McConaughey, the 30-year-old actor said he wasn’t interested in ...

This is an aerial photo of the Southport waterfront taken in the early 1950s by noted Southport photographer Art Newton. This was a time when the fishing and shrimping industry drove the city’s ...

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She grew up far from the genteel world of tennis, but became a pre-eminent figure in the women’s sport, reigning as queen of the lawns at Wimbledon and Forest Hills.

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Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking 1879 play, “A Doll’s House,” is getting a major update. Director Justin Emeka has adapted the story with a Black cast and changed the location and time period from Norway ...