Queer Harlem Renaissance spotlights sites like the old Savoy Ballroom and Hotel Olga to learn about their history and importance during that era.

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Let’s keep things light this month, shall we? Some of the fun offerings on Seattle stages this summer include circus arts, a classic mystery, high-energy musicals and a whirlwind new-play project that ...

Published poet and researcher of African American literature Angel Dye will be joining SIUE’s Department of English as an ...

The novelist and screenwriter works in a mode he calls “urban panorama”—a sociologically rich depiction of the tensions of ...

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Exploring the theme of “chosen family,” the theatre’s upcoming 16th season presents Wallace Thurman’s Fire!!, Gilbert and ...

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