Her work is the most complete account of the liberation of 700 enslaved people from seven plantations along the Combahee River in 1863.

BLAM is "Nacho Libre" meets "Friday" and it's set in Pittsburgh. Tony Norman sat down with the filmmakers as it moves into post production.

Canton, aka Soul Show Mike, is the lone survivor of WYEP's "The Soul Show." Now he's taking inspiration from Jerry Seinfeld.

Maneese is a licensed practical counselor and the founding director of Transitional Characters, a group practice located on Ellsworth Ave.

Minneapolis-based playwright TyLie Shider is in Pittsburgh for a monthlong residency to study the August Wilson Archive at Pitt.

Khari Mosley may be a bowtie-wearing City Councilman by day, but by night he is KMOS — half of a hip-hop duo that is “Bringing ’88 Back."

There’s a classic Charlie Daniels Band song that comes to mind when musing on the supine strangeness of these times. It’s called “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and it’s been on my mind ever since I heard U.S. Sen. John Fetterman would be the first major Democrat to make the trek to Mar-a-Lago to […]

Once proud institutional bulwarks rush to prostrate themselves before Trump in advance of any demand that they do so, columnist Tony Norman writes.

A Ferris-wheel-topped development would cast a long shadow on a historic, majority-Black neighborhood, which lacks a single voice ahead of a Tuesday vote

In all fairness, the latest installment of our phallocentric presidential politics began with Barack Obama’s taunt of Donald Trump’s fragile manhood at the Democratic National Convention last summer. With one deft move, Obama combined a humorous observation about Trump’s preoccupation with the size of his rallies with hand gestures the raucous crowd interpreted as a […]

Trump is clearly a man in cognitive decline who thinks we’re all too stupid to notice because of his vigor and bombastic style.

We should understand that there will never be a shortage of stooges willing to carry out Trump’s agenda given the chance.

“Yihla moja / Yihla moja / The man is dead / The man is dead!” — excerpt from “Biko” by Peter Gabriel Artist vanessa german served up the best eulogy imaginable on her Instagram account a month ago for fellow artist Emory Biko upon news of his…

In a country with the most expensive health care in the world, few subjects are as painful — or inexplicable — as America’s increasing infant mortality rate. America has 5.37 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, making it one of the least safe…

By now, everyone knows that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is more popular with Black and Hispanic voters than might be measurable in polls or even imagined after the hostility he’s stirred up against both groups over the years. The…

“Show me a successful individual and I’ll show you someone who had real positive influences in his or her life. I don’t care what you do for a living—if you do it well I’m sure there was someone cheering you on or showing the way. A mentor.” – Denzel…

Despite her smile and friendly demeanor, Cheryl (pronounced “Churl”) Hall-Russell sounded both wistful and more than a little frustrated just before our interview. Because she has moderated Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) forums as a consultant…

It had been a long time since the Rev. Glenn Germany looked into the dead eyes of someone who pointed a gun directly at him. He was at the beginning of a sermon based on 1 Peter, 1:3 when he found himself standing in the middle of the stage…

Neighborhood activist Lisa Freeman, the visionary behind the Freeman Family Farm and Greenhouse, has all sorts of folks running scared on the North Side. Despite her reputation as a woman with little to no respect for developers or municipal power…

Wakanda, the futuristic African nation of film and comic books is fiction. The Battle of Adwa, the victory of African forces over Italy in Tigray Province, Ethiopia, on March 1, 1896, is not. On Saturday, March 2, a gathering of roughly 70 people,…