During the Day of Atonement (Numbers 36:4), the blowing of a ram’s horn would indicate the start of the year of Jubilee. A year dedicated to rest, to restoration of property, and to freeing people ...

Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang attend the Las Culturistas Culture Awards at Kings Theatre on June 15, 2024 in New York City.

The film version of the musical Oliver had just been released. My junior high music teacher opened auditions for the spring show.

James Weldon Johnson’s poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” set to music by his brother John Rosamond, was first presented as a hymn, then adopted as a song and soon cherished as an anthem. In its 125th ...