On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.
From the origins of the banjo as an African instrument to the first country radio hits being sung by Black men, Alice Randall wants readers to know that country music would not exist without the Black people who shaped it.
Grief, family, race, healthcare and identity were at the center of multiple discussions at the recent Martha’s Vineyard Community, Purpose and Legacy Series.
Author Victoria Wright compares confronting her internal bully to that of a caterpillar folding completely within itself and decomposing inside its cocoon in order to be born again as a radiant butterfly.
Ben Shattuck will discuss The History of Sound this Saturday at the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, in conversation with poet and Aquinnah resident Ron Slate, who also happens to be his father in law.
Historian and Wampanoag tribal elder Linda Coombs recently published Colonization and the Wampanoag Story. On Monday, she spoke at Aquinnah town hall about her book and her career.