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A New Opera Mashes Up Monteverdi and W.E.B. Du Bois
New York Times· 4 days agoBold in its satire and explicit in its sensuality, even more than 350 years after its creation, the work gives its ruthless lovers, Nero and Poppea,...
Artemus Jenkins channels W.E.B. Du Bois, Kendrick Lamar in new solo show
WABE· 4 days ago“[The exhibit] is very much a critique rooted in similar thoughts that Mr. Du Bois had about Atlanta...
Jake McCandless named principal of W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School
Berkshire Eagle· 3 days agoJason “Jake” McCandless — an educator and administrator with experience in the Mount Greylock,...
Confronting Opera as an “Inherently Colonialist Art Form,” Yuval Sharon Brings New Work to L.A.
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRenowned opera director Yuval Sharon returns to The Industry, the company where he began his career,...
Visionary director Yuval Sharon isn't trying to cancel old opera. His latest fantastical piece...
Los Angeles Times· 5 days agoWhat do 17th century Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi and 20th century writer and civil rights...
A Frightening View of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Harvard
Reason.com· 20 hours agoProfessor Lawrence Bobo, Dean of Social Science and the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social ...
Harrisburg’s William Howard Day made mark as pioneering civil rights leader | Column
The Patriot-News· 2 days agoWilliam Howard Day was a significant 19th-century Black civil rights figure who made his mark in...
Community news: Aviation Academy June 21-22; off-broadway play coming Sunday to Gainesville
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMinistries, 3575 NE 15th St. The play features time-traveling witnesses, including Harriet Tubman,...
The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem
The Atlantic· 3 days agoIn “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was a watercolor still life by...
As Juneteenth nears, meet the UMass prof who has pushed the reparations cause for three decades
The Republican· 19 hours agoFor over 30 years, Amilcar Shabazz has been on the frontlines in the fight for reparations to ease...