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Byline: Felicia R. Lee Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion By Steve Fraser Yale. 287 pp. $25 --- Its influence begins before birth and holds sway beyond [...]

Byline: Felicia R. Lee An American Family: A Memoir of Hope and Sacrifice By Khizr Khan Random House. 271 pp. $27 --- It took about two minutes in 2016 for [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHe gained 30 pounds. He shaved back his hairline. He traveled to corners of the South with the darkest history. But the unexpected preparation that helped David Oyelowo play [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFrom 1915 onward, six million black Southerners quit that region for points north in an epic tide of souls fleeing oppression and seeking opportunity. This spring, the Museum of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDFrom 1915 onward, six million black Southerners quit that region for points north in an epic tide of souls fleeing oppression and seeking opportunity. This spring, the Museum of [...]

Alexander David grew up with a Chinese mother and a white Jewish father in the liberal Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. He attended the predominantly Asian elite Stuyvesant High School. [...]

A finalist for the National Book Award in poetry, Claudia Rankine's ''Citizen: An American Lyric'' is audacious in form. But what is perhaps especially striking about the book is that [...]

''The Heart of Robin Hood,'' which has been called a romance, a drama and a comedy, can now call itself headed for Broadway, the producers announced Friday. Previews for the [...]

The New Black Fest, which last year commissioned 10-minute works on Trayvon Martin, race and privilege, will present a free showcase of works on Monday called ''Hands Up: Six Testaments,'' [...]

Dozens of photographs capturing a pivotal event in the civil rights movement -- the 1965 march from Selma, Ala., to the state capital in Montgomery -- will be exhibited at [...]

The singer and songwriter Meshell Ndegeocello, the painter and sculptor Edouard Duval-Carri, the filmmakers Ryan White and Ben Cotner and the artist Wangechi Mutu are among 34 people who have [...]

Featuring interviews with jazz greats, and concert video-casts from festivals and clubs nationwide ''Jazz Night in America,'' a new initiative in jazz programming, began Wednesday. A joint endeavor of National [...]

''An Octoroon,'' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's acclaimed play, is coming back in a new venue. The Theater for a New Audience announced Thursday that it is expanding its season with a presentation [...]

An Australian opera company's decision to ban performances of ''Carmen'' for two years because it depicts smoking is provoking criticism and debate in Australia. The West Australian Opera has said [...]

''Have you been happier in slavery or free?'' a young Works Project Administration interviewer in 1937 asked Lorenzo Ivy, a former slave, in Danville, Va. Ivy responded with a memory [...]

Most arts organizations these days are seeking ways to fill seats and to expand their audiences. On Wednesday, the Wallace Foundation will announce a $40 million effort to help performing [...]

For decades, the seven reels from 1913 lay unexamined in the film archives of the Museum of Modern Art. Now, after years of research, a historic find has emerged: what [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTwelve men and nine women, whose work is as diverse as studying the racial elements in perceptions of crime and translating contemporary Arab poetry, have been named the 2014 [...]

Ntozake Shange's ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,'' an audacious, feminist cry from the heart, started life in 1974 in a women's bar in California, [...]

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is mounting an exhibition this fall of important photographs by Gordon Parks, some of which have never been publicly exhibited, museum officials announced [...]

In the weak light of a February afternoon, Kelly Thorndike has a strange chance encounter in a Baltimore parking lot with Martin Lipkin, an old friend from high school. But [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLacey Schwartz, a 37-year-old Harvard Law School graduate turned filmmaker, moves with ease in circles in which her identity as both black and Jewish seems unremarkable. What makes her [...]

James Baldwin, a Harlem native who died in 1987, would have turned 90 on Saturday. Among the many tributes in a year in which his legacy as a major writer [...]

Julie Crosby's abrupt departure as the producing artistic director of Women's Project Theater has led most of its advisory board and several members of the board of directors to quit, [...]

Walter Dean Myers, a best-selling children's book author whose crystalline prose often depicted the gritty lives of young people, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 76. His death, at [...]

More than a decade ago, when the young Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was struggling to get her first novel, ''Purple Hibiscus,'' published, an agent told her that things would [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn the summer of 1964, Richard Beymer -- the actor who a few years earlier had made a splash playing Tony in the film of ''West Side Story'' -- [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDStirring his pot of nightmares, legends, fairy tales and human folly into stories, the British-born fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has produced more than 20 books for children and adults, [...]

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is establishing a major new center for the analysis of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the only such center based in a public [...]

Frank O'Hara, a founder of the New York School of poets, died at age 40 in the summer of 1966, after being hit by a dune buggy on Fire Island. [...]

The YAMS, a collective of artists who made a video on race and black identity for the current Whitney Biennial, have withdrawn the work to protest a project in the [...]

Part lively dance performance and part spirited homage to ancestors, the DanceAfrica festival, founded at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1977 by Chuck Davis -- who made it the [...]

James Baldwin's 1953 novel, ''Go Tell It on the Mountain,'' about a Harlem teenager's search for meaning, quickly became a classic, along with his searing essays about race published a [...]

And they said it wouldn't last. The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, the biggest in North America, will be back for the third time at the New Jersey Performing Arts [...]

Jonathan F. Fanton, the former president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and of the New School, will be the new president of the American Academy of [...]

Marcus Gardley had been rewriting through the night. The next morning, it was time for a pep talk to the five actors in a scruffy rehearsal space who were clutching [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDATLANTA -- With a lick of wheat paste, a roller and a stepladder, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a painter and illustrator from Brooklyn, introduced herself to the South, in an unusual [...]

A world premiere from Robert Moses, the company premiere of Asadata Dafora's 1932 solo ''Awassa Astrige/Ostrich'' and new productions by David Parsons and Hans van Manen are among the highlights [...]

Growing up in the 1970s at opposite ends of New York State, two girls were immersed in all things cool, black and funky. Saturday morning cartoons won their hearts. Loreen [...]

Lorraine Hansberry has never really left the spotlight. Her work is widely taught and her most famous play, ''A Raisin in the Sun,'' is back on Broadway for its second [...]

With ''Stokely: A Life,'' the historian Peniel E. Joseph says he set out to ''recover'' Stokely Carmichael, the man who popularized the phrase ''black power'' and led the Student Nonviolent [...]

Jazz -- its history, its talents, its sounds -- is the subject of a new exhibition at the Children's Museum of Manhattan that will run May 23 through Oct. 19, [...]

Justice Antonin Scalia, meet Justice Antonin Scalia. One highlight of the 65th season at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., is to be ''The Originalist,'' a political drama by John Strand, [...]

Helne Yorke That adage about actors not quitting their day jobs? Helne Yorke took it to heart, relinquishing her gig at Physique 57 in Manhattan only recently. ''I'm very proud [...]

James Monroe Iglehart, who is preparing to play Genie in ''Aladdin'' on Broadway, has craved applause since the age of 5, when he brought down the house -- his family's [...]

In Sienna Shields's spacious studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn, with homemade rag dolls decorating one wall and hair-bead sculptures dangling from the ceiling, the mood was festive one recent frigid night. [...]

In time for the upcoming sesquicentennial marking the end of the Civil War, the New-York Historical Society is featuring the exhibition ''Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil [...]

''Times have changed,'' Aaron Goodstone said stoically, eyeing the spruced-up brick tenement at Ridge and Stanton Streets on the Lower East Side, now hip, where his friend Martin Wong once [...]

''This is wild,'' George Brant murmured, struggling to be heard as the AC/DC anthem ''Back in Black'' blared and rehearsal got underway for his play ''Grounded.'' His flight from Cleveland [...]

The writer Sue Monk Kidd found the voice that her new book needed when she became smitten with an enslaved girl who is only a footnote to history. ''I could [...]