By Myra Chanin On May 17, 1954, Thurgood Marshall, Esq. convinced the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education that separate was not equal — just unconstitutional. The Court ordered schools to integrate with “all deliberate speed.” The following year, in 1955 the...
A Taste of Honey: Still Sweet
by JK Clarke More often than not, a powerful work of art that speaks to, or enlivens, a generation, tends to lose a good deal of its luster as time moves on. What once seemed extraordinary becomes ordinary largely as a result of imitation or...
Political Undertakings: The Burial...
by Samuel L. Leiter The Burial at Thebes, Irish poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s sharp-as-a-dagger adaptation of Sophocles’ 441 BC Greek tragedy Antigone, joins the small number of premodern classics presented since 1988 by the Irish Repertory...
