You might know him from Phantom of the Opera or The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

The Black Press historically has countered disinformation that targeted Black voters, but now it is financially connected to Facebook itself.

A group of thinkers who fled Europe wanted to explain the rise of Nazism, but their ideas haven't withstood scrutiny.

Well-researched stories from CNN, the New York Times, and other publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

The African American opera singer made history with a stirring concert at the Lincoln Memorial. But there was much more to Marian Anderson.

When artists showed solidarity with one another and the larger labor movement, they won federal patronage.

The folk saint Santa Muerte might seem mysterious, but her devotees embrace a wide variety of everyday practices.

Instagram didn't invent photos of culinary masterpieces designed to inflame the appetite. Cookbooks have been at it for centuries.

In an age of hashtag activism and partisan news, social media offers possibilities for intersectional movements to reimagine images of Black protest.

The pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton once told an ethnomusicologist that real jazz tunes needed "tinges of Spanish."