In “Purpose,” Kara Young has found her perfect artistic vehicle. The play demands space for contemporary Black voices.

“Harlem Night Song” is a great example of the ... While it could be interpreted as something as sorrowful as a funeral poem, ...

the roughly two-hour work that opened Saturday night at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis mixes the living and ghosts ambiguously in a Harlem brownstone. Ricky Ian Gordon’s lush score brings to ...

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of ...

Short poem on how the sound of funeral bells warns that death is coming to us all and that we should "prepare for heav'n." It was written by "W.L." of Pershore, Worcestershire on 22 October 1760.

Charles Rangel, a longtime New York congressman, is being laid to rest with a funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan ...

Rangel's funeral takes place Friday at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in midtown Manhattan and will be open to the public as well as ...