With Record Store Day approaching this Saturday (4/18/26), this list highlights eighteen recommended archival releases and ...

Critic Kevin Whitehead reviews biographies of two musicians who transcended jazz, and to whom recognition was slow in coming: James P. Johnson, born in 1894, and Alice Coltrane, born in 1937.

Released in 1972, Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" was one of the seminal films of the New Hollywood, frequently topping the list of '70s best picture Oscar winners. One of the most rewatchable ...

For one night only, the ghosts haunting the historic Lincoln Theatre on U Street made room for something far more tangible: the living fire of James Baldwin’s words. Shown here, the committee that ...

Click here for the original audio and to read a book excerpt. We revisit host Scott Tong's February 2025 conversation with Harvard University professor and MacArthur Grant recipient Imani Perry about ...

“Somebody should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished and are perishing every hour – and in the oddest of places! – for the lack of it.” — “Giovanni’s ...

Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwin’s work, filled with astute literary analysis of ...

Gay Black writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) seems to be everywhere: TikTok memes, social media hashtags, Raoul Peck’s 2016 award-winning documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” Princeton University’s ...

In his posthumously published collection The Price of the Ticket, James Baldwin explores the cost of being Black in America by first interrogating what it means to be White in America. He observes ...

When I received my reviewer’s advanced copy of Nicholas Boggs’ epic biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” several months in advance of the Aug. 19 publication date, I was determined to ...

On this day (September 9) in 1950, Sonny James received word that his National Guard unit, the 252 nd Truck Company, had been activated. As a result, he put his budding musical career on hold for two ...

"Love was a crucial subject for James Baldwin," said Chris Vognar in The Boston Globe, so it's appropriate that this first major Baldwin biography in 31 years "can be seen as an act of love." Author ...