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On this episode of Culture & Flavor, Zella talks with A'Lelia Bundles about the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, Zella's great grandfather Dr. Joseph Henry Ward (who was Madam Walker's doctor and friend), and A'Lelia's soon to be released book, "The Joy Goddess: A'Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance."

In the porn wars of the ’80s, stripper and filmmaker Candida Royalle took on all sides in a battle that embodied both the promise and the perils of her times.

Join our live author discussion on April 30 at 6 p.m. to discuss a new biography on the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

How the archive of Candida Royalle, a porn star turned pioneering director, landed at Harvard — and inspired a new book challenging the conventional history...

Today, Royalle’s name may ring a few bells. But her voluminous archive is now housed at Harvard, where the trove of diaries, letters, photographs, scrapbooks, videos and memorabilia is opening up a new window onto the sexual revolution

Bush's boss boat

Our panel for a conference on equity and antiracism at CUNY’s Lehman College was canceled because it included the word “intifada” in the title. Instead of promoting antiracism, CUNY participates in the demonization of Palestinian resistance.

And the nominees are...

More than 60 years ago, America was confronted with the story of a young woman forced to seek an abortion abroad after unwittingly taking a drug that caused severe birth defects.

The 1976 book “The Hite Report” was a bestseller from the beginning. Its intimate anecdotes about love, sex, orgasms and masturbation, drawn from anonymous