Kenneth B. Morris Jr.’s family treasures have always been American treasures. Morris, 62, is the great-great-great-grandson of abolitionist and orator, Frederick Douglass, and great-great-grandson of ...

If the Trump administration cared so much about antisemitism, it wouldn't go after the National Endowment for the Humanities ...

As a historian focused on Jewish history for more than four decades, I was aware when I applied to the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Public Scholars program ...

Harriet Jacobs, in her 1861 book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” remarks: “It is a sad feeling to be afraid of one’s ...

At Theater J, Synetic Theater co-founder Paata Tsikurishvili is directing “The Immigrant,” based on Charlie Chaplin’s silent ...

The new series 'Adolescence' has sparked a global conversation about how teenage boys are in crisis. I spoke to a ...

A New York City program wants to foster student journalism. It’s as vexed by reader engagement as the professionals are.

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

There is so much history between the walls of Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has hosted funerals for ...

A decade after an Italian court overturned her conviction, the author of "Free" is embracing all of her quirks ...