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A new graphic novel sharing the story of Robert Smalls’ released Thursday in honor of Juneteenth. Here’s what to know.
EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Pictures is reuniting with Marielle Heller and Leah Holzer’s Defiant by Nature production shingle for ...
Robert Smalls published a newspaper, established a transportation company and served five terms in the United States Congress ...
The political landscape may look bleak for LGBTQ people right now, but if history is any indicator, their opponents have a real fight on their hands. This community has long been shaped by ...
Biographer Stacy Schiff, in her book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America, comes to a similar conclusion, writing, “Franklin expressed no sympathy for his 48-year-old ...
Frank McGuinness: ‘I fell in love with Elizabeth Bennet and Huck Finn – they are brilliant, defiant and good for the exercise of body and mind’ My Life in Books Frank McGuinness.
Defiant Acts recounts fictionalized stories ... seems to communicate that frustration—we’re never quite on track. “I think the book is genuinely hopeful, but there’s also no clear path ...
Chander Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper ... until it wound up in 2017. This book chronicles the exciting lives of the newspapers, their founder and editors, as well as landmark ...
Chandar Mohan and Jyotsna Mohan’s Pratap: A Defiant Newspaper opens with a tense ... This poignant snippet sets the stage for the book that presents the Urdu language daily Pratap and its ...
He thus seemed particularly anxious to be a good steward of the central bank, ever mindful of how he might be judged in the financial history books. Donald Trump should take note. In recent days ...
This book is brutal and unsparing in its portrayal ... speaking to the archetypes we’re often locked into, and the defiant types like Cal who make their escape. —M.A. Whitehead’s sixth ...
“i seek another dimension in music,” the trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith wrote in his 1973 book notes (8 pieces ... that Iyer and Smith contemplate on Defiant Life are dire. The “ongoing sorrow ...