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“It’s taken me a while to come back,” says Baron Kelly, Vilas Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Drama at UW-Madison. Appointed in 2022, Kelly has come home to the department where he earned his doctorate two decades ago. And his first directing project in this new post, which is also part of his ongoing research, […]
Alone in solitary confinement as a teenager, Reginald Dwayne Betts called out to the other men being held in solitary: “Somebody, send me a book!” Moments later, Dudley Randall’s “The Black Poets” slid under his cell door. Those pages started Betts’ transformation into a poet, lawyer and advocate for the rights of prisoners. Betts is […]
New Season of Smoke Screen From Neon Hum, Sony Music Entertainment and Bloomberg Spotlights the International Bleach Conspiracy Ignited by the Genesis II Church New York and Los Angeles – February 1, 2023 – Neon Hum and Sony Music Entertainment, in partnership with Bloomberg, today launched Smoke Screen: Deadly Cure, a new season of its hit investigative podcast series exploring […]
Anxiety is rising among children and teenagers. The reasons are plenty. Most aren’t getting the help … [+] they need. getty Like adults, children feel worried from time to time. It’s normal. But when a child’s anxiety interferes with his or her school, home or social life, it’s time for professional help. The moving documentary,
“Clotilda” descendants and community activists. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix A documentary about the last known U.S. slave ship to bring captives from Africa has been shortlisted for an
(JTA) — For his 2021 book “How the Word Is Passed,” winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, poet and journalist Clint Smith explored the landscape of American memory — specifically how the history of slavery is explained, commemorated, distorted and desecrated in sites across the United States. While on tour promoting the […]
Before going to Belize in June 2022, I had put off getting my passport for years. Ever since I was a little girl, I’d fantasized about traveling abroad. When I went to college, I had plans to study internationally and had all of these expansive ideas about being a political analyst and covering international stories […]
By Mary Kate Brogan Shawn Utsey, Ph.D., a professor in the Department . . .
MILAN, Sept 30 (Reuters) – Italian insurer Generali (GASI.MI) has held informal deal talks with Guggenheim Partners on a range of options including a full acquisition of the U.S. investment firm’s asset management business, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing sources.
NAACP and Brookings publish the Black Progress Index, a first-of-its-kind analysis of Black life expectancy in U.S. counties and metro areas Washington, D.C. — New landmark data analysis of U.S. counties and metro areas, the Black Progress Index, an interactive dashboard that examines the impact of social and neighborhood conditions on life expectancy in cities […]