In 1968 Palm Springs, as the author yearned for the would-be leading man of his Malcolm X screenplay, an era-defining act of ...

(Andy Kropa | Invision via AP) Aretha Franklin sings at the Elton John AIDS Foundation's 25th Anniversary Gala at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in 2017. A religious commentator sees ...

This breaking of conventional boundaries is precisely where the Apostle Paul and Aretha Franklin meet. While Aretha doesn’t ...

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for the American Revolution. It mocked the English monarchy, calling hereditary succession “a degradation and lessening of ourselves” and “an ...