As part of the NPR series, "In Character," we take a look at the enslaved character, Jim, in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Was he a... Was Jim of 'Huckleberry Finn' a Hero? As part of ...

Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant, sometimes playful titles such as “The ...

Marcus Kwame Anderson, seen at Earthworld Comics in Albany, collaborated with author David F. Walker on “Big Jim and the White Boy.” Marcus Kwame Anderson's illustrations in "Big Jim and the White Boy ...

When Everett thought of writing Jim’s side of Huck Finn, he was surprised that no one had ever delivered that story before. The two fugitives are separated for a long section of Twain’s novel, and ...

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Professional historian and educator Kathy Wilson presented a program on Thursday at the Marshalltown Public Library entitled, ...

In the mid-1980s, Broadway made an effort to recruit songwriters from Nashville and producers happened on a man named Roger Miller, at that point best known for penning the song “King of the Road,” a ...

Walt Disney’s The Adventures of Huck Finn is a 1993 adaptation of the American classic novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The movie tells the story of the titular protagonist, Huck, ...

Aunt Polly isn't very young anymore when she takes her two nephews Tom and Sid Sawyer under her wing after their parents died. Tom doesn't like to go to school and is always full of mischief, his ...

In a fever dream of a retelling, America's new reigning king of satire has turned a loved classic, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, upside down,... An enslaved man debates John Locke. A Black man ...

Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant, sometimes playful titles such as “The ...

Everyone should know the name Percival Everett by now. His “Also by Percival Everett” lists read like discographies, revealing more than 30 novels with resonant, sometimes playful titles such as “The ...