For the past 21 years, I’ve taught at historically Black colleges, and several times during those years the theater department has either hosted or produced a...
Author - Danny Duncan Collum
The movie Hillbilly Elegy arrived in theaters just a few days after the 2020 presidential election was decided. It started streaming on Netflix two weeks later...
When you walk into the new traveling art exhibit, “Andy Warhol: Revelation,” one of the first things you see is a poster-sized black-and-white...
The defining image of the COVID-19 pandemic may be that of an old person in a hospital bed connected to the full spectrum of medical industry resources but...
Stephen K. Bannon, former chief strategist for Donald Trump, could be the most dangerous man in America. He understands that America’s non-college-educated...
When I was growing up in a white Southern working-class home, country music was simply the air we breathed. Even as a rock and roll-crazed teenager, I still...
Fifty years from now, if anyone still studies the humanities, perhaps there will be a great debate in the departments of cultural studies over who was the...
German filmmaker Werner Herzog loves Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union. He says so right in the middle of his documentary, Meeting...
Anyone who has trouble grasping the notion that human nature is simultaneously divine and depraved just doesn’t know enough about the history of the popular...
Baltimore wants so badly to be known for its waterfront and its historic neighborhoods, but instead it is famous for murder, gang wars, and police brutality...
