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Roslyn Ruff and Jimonn Cole in ‘X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation’ (photo: T. Charles Erickson)
Arts & CultureTheater
Rob Weinert-Kendt
But was the civil rights leader Brutus or Caesar?
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
Medieval anti-clerical prophecy sounded a lot like modern social media.
US Air Force F-106As in flight in the early 1960s. Planes such as these were on high alert and ready to launch airstrikes on Soviet missile positions in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October, 1962. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Politics & SocietyArchives
Antonio De Loera-Brust
While a comparison with the Cuban Crisis does little to reassure us, it can offer some lessons on how our government avoided disaster in an even worse situation. We have been closer to the brink and still found a way to walk back.
French soldiers in their trench somewhere on the Western Front. (Library of Congress/Wikipedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyOf Many Things
Matt Malone, S.J.
What we see and how we see it largely depends on where we are standing. A shared sense of history, of what was, or might’ve been, or could be again, is the indispensable touchstone of our collective judgement, for memory is the soul of conscience.
Front: Lucas, Mike, and Dustin from Season 2 of Stranger Things. Back: A sign erected by white tenants seeking to prevent blacks from moving into a housing project in Detroit, 1942. (Netflix, Wikipedia Commons)
Arts & CultureTelevision
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Could Hawkins be a place haunted not just by the Upside Down, but by the ghosts of our country’s racist past?
Arts & CultureBooks
Elizabeth Kirkland Cahill
A survey of children's books that put a human face on the complexities of America’s past