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An illustration of the death of Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Illustration: Etching by George Cruikshank, 1852/Alamy).
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Elizabeth Grace Matthew
In 1862, Harriet Beecher Stowe made feeling right on race easy, righteous and comfortable, all at once. We face the same trap today.
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Elyse Durham
To a world in upheaval, ballet is an emblem of calmer times.
James Baldwin was the author of The Fire Next Time among other works. He died in 1987 (Photo Credit: Dan Budnik)
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Stephen G. Adubato
Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.
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Kevin Jackson
Jason Isbell’s music dares us to practice intentional, engaged listening precisely because that is what Isbell himself is bringing to it.
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Jason M. Baxter
What did Notre-Dame mean? What did it feel like to step into it in the Middle Ages?
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Douglas J. Gladstone
Baseball is not a religion, but plenty of its players find their real vocation after retirement.