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On Jan. 3, 1867, nearly two years after the end of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass stood before a full house of hundreds of African Americans at Philadelphia’s National Hall. He had been invited to speak in a Black lecture series organized by William Still, famous for his work on the Underground Railroad. As recounted…

Kathryn Hahn's casting as Joan Rivers in an upcoming Showtime series is the latest in an ongoing trend that sees few Jewish women get opportunities to play an already scant number of Jewish female roles.

Dear Evan Hansen, the film adaptation of Steven Levenson’s multiple-award-winning stage musical, is ostensibly a nice little movie about a teen trying to overcome Social Anxiety disorder, about learning that it’s OK to be anxious and depressed and that being medicated for those things, if necessary, is normal and healthy. But it’s really a monster…

You can say one thing for Professor Mark Haub: He knows how to make a lesson stick. Haub, who teaches nutrition at Kansas State University, wanted to prove to his students that weight loss is simply about calories. So, for 10 weeks, the professor proceeded to eat an 1,800-calorie diet consisting of a Twinkie every…

The agenda Biden laid out at the U.N. was plenty ambitious, from COVID-19 to climate change. Does he mean what he says?

The pulse of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, about a man so in love with an illusion he can’t see the reality before him, thrums inside every person who’s obsessed with movies, but the Pygmalion dreams it’s drawn from are universal. In its subterranean way, Vertigo speaks to anyone who has tried to sculpt a relationship into…

Deb Haaland said news coverage of the Gabby Petito case should be a reminder of hundreds of indigenous women who are missing or murdered.

A few short months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, announced an ambitious initiative to tackle climate change that would transform every sector of the economy. The so-called Green Deal aims to cut Europe’s emissions 55% in the next decade, putting the bloc on…

All crypto-related transactions, including services provided by offshore exchanges to domestic residents, are illicit financial activities, China's central bank said

Rep. Peter DeFazio said he witnessed a passenger at an airport bar order three shots of alcohol in a cup he could take with him

Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao is taking on former ally Rodrigo Duterte in his biggest political bout to date

Despite a convoluted opening, this lavish sci-fi drama rewards patience

The panel limited the additional dose to people who have already been vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine

'Dear Evan Hansen' has divided fans and critics. Are they right to be so critical, and what makes a musical work onscreen to begin with?