She's reviving the Black Arts Movement’s tradition of pairing poetry with live music—and drawing Gen Z off their phones and ...

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Alton Brown, post TV, has released his first book of essays and is about to embark on his fourth live culinary variety show tour. We talk to Alton about life at age 62.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Watermark Art Center and Sundown Records will host a Poetry SLAM at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at Fozzie's Smokin Bar-B-Q, 114 Third St. NW. "A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets ...

Frederick Douglass, born into slavery in 1818, never knew the precise date he was born, but later chose Feb. 14 as his ...

Rupert’s shocking decision was the climax of a succession battle that had pitted James and Lachlan, born just 15 months apart ...

At the beginning of every school year since the 1980s, I thank God I’m not behind bars. Here’s why. As the guidance counselor at King Elementary School, I took the ...

Dear America, I used to hate you. I only knew you as the home you built for me. I knew you as gunshots and brutality; as ...

In the last year, there were over 500 near-misses by major commercial airlines. We talked to air traffic controllers and ...