For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...

The seldom-performed, 70-year-old play by Alice Childress follows a group of actors navigating racism and sexism as they ...

Set in the antebellum South, Mark Twain’s classic tale of two runaways — one escaping an abusive father, and the other escaping slavery — went straight to the heart of the question ...

Michael Ray Charles is a contemporary American painter. His work explores historic African American stereotypes from the Antebellum South, appropriating images from advertising and pop culture to ...