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<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">"Historians have generally discounted the role of the Kennedy administration, concluding that they moved only when forced to by the rush of events, and that somehow RFK experienced an epiphany after his brother was assassinated. This is clearly not the case."</p>

Randy Wilburn is — we'll go ahead and say it — a bit of a Renaissance man.

Sandro Galea, dean of BUs School of Public Health, examines why the COVID-19 pandemic was worse than it had to be and how to reshape our public health in his new book The Contagion Next Time.

This 2015 homage to James Baldwin identified racism at the heart of the American dream.

30 Romantic Wedding Quotes to Use on Your Big Day Perfect for vows, decor, invitations, and Instagram captions. Jul 21, 2021 Your wedding is a Very Special Day. Regardless of whether it’s an intimate virtual event or a full-blown party with 500 of your closest friends, weddings are meant to be a fun and celebratory declaration of the love between you and your spouse-to-be. For this reason, even if youre not the most love-y, dove-y person in the world, this is the event to try to e...

A captivating adventure into the world of our consciousness, a community’s struggle in the face of social inequality, an artistic exploration of indigenous perspectives, a depiction of an abusive relationship through the eyes of a child and an isolated man looking for connection: These are just a few of the stories highlighted at the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Film Festival which showcased international perspectives celebrating diversity, individuality and cultural identity through th...

The End of the World as We Know It , by Elisa Gabbert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. 272 pages. Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time , by Ben Ehrenreich. Counterpoint, 2020. 336 pages. Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex , by Jessica Hurley. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. 301 pages. IT’S HARD to escape the apocalypse these days. Temperatures are rising. The far right is resurgent around the world. A pandemic has killed millions and i...

Both Eddie S. Glaude's Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own and Bill V. Mullen's James Baldwin: Living in Fire are organized around what Mullen calls the “arc of change, reflection, and evolution” in Baldwin's life story.

COMMENT | What is Bangsa Malaysia? Modified11:22 pm - James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time. COMMENT | Lim Kit Siang recently asked Malaysians to ask themselves one question – “who is the Other in the Malaysian context?” His answer to this question, his point of self-reflection if you will, was this: "Is the Other the Chinese and Indians to a Malay Malaysian, the Malays and Indians to a Chinese Malaysian, and the Malays and Chinese to an Indian Malaysian?" As someone who has spent a decade a...

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘Mank’ Win Awards in BAFTA’s Below-the-Line Ceremony “Ma Rainey” is the only two-time winner in a show that presented awards in six below-the-line categories and two short-film categoriesSteve Pond | April 10, 2021 @ 1:55 PM Last Updated: April 10, 2021 @ 1:57 PM AWARDS BEAT David Lee/Netflix “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,”  “Mank,” “Rocks,” “Tenet” and  “Sound of Metal” were among the winners at Saturday’s BAFTA Op...