Falling in love with my culture led to me loving myself in ways I had never experienced before. Things I tried to tame at 18, ...

"Hallelujah John Tudor, John Tudor!" The emotional adulation used to roll down the St James Park terraces and over the Tyne ...

Few individuals have left an impact as great as Maya Angelou across so many sectors. Best known for her autobiographical ...

Anthony Davis is known worldwide as a composer of orchestral and chamber works. The New York Times has called Davis one of ...

As Black History Month gets underway, a local exhibit is remembering the time when Malcolm X lived in the mid-Michigan area.  Before Malcolm X became the prominent activist ...

While February is best known as the shortest month of the year, it can also be one of the most enlightening ones. That’s ...

Max makes up for its absence of attention-grabbing original movies this month with a new, impressive assortment of bona fide ...

In his new memoir, Bill Gates doesn’t mention any study of William Wordsworth’s writings. But when I read Source Code: My ...

This week’s literary quiz tests your knowledge of films inspired by nonfiction books or deeply autobiographical novels.

If you don't really know why, a good starting point is the 1992 film starring Denzel Washington (Gladiator II). An epic in many senses, the movie clocks in at 3 hours and 22 minutes, and it's also ...

Alex Haley was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the novel, Roots, which was based on his family's history of ...