Thelonious “Monk” Ellison has hit his breaking point. The students in his Southern-lit class at the prestigious university he teaches at are oversensitive snowflakes. His superiors think he needs a break from academia. Monk’s novels may still be in print, but you wouldn’t know it; they’ve all been relegated to …
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The 1963 March on Washington did not merely come together on its own via a whim, a wish, and good will. It took years of strategizing, planning, building coalitions, dodging bureaucratic obstacles and opponents both within and outside the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Students and veteran activists worked phone lines, …
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Westworld will return for an eight-episode fourth season June 26 on HBO Max. The sci-fi drama, which aired its third season over two years ago, hinted at what’s to come in an unsettling teaser trailer titled, “It doesn’t look like anything to me.” The trailer, set to Lou Reed’s “Perfect …
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