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The East German secret police kept a file on Michael Jackson. He performed near the Berlin Wall in June 1988, and the…
Lebanese painter Tamara Haddad focuses on war, ecological devastation, and the physical transformations taking place on earth through her work, which places…
I have attended many artistic forums and hangouts around the continent. You soon realize that there are two types of artistic enclaves: those…
With the people of Iran now targeted by the goons currently running the United States and Israel, Donald Trumpās recent and explicit…
As the war in Sudan rages on, theater is being used to help survivors of violence heal invisible wounds, overcome isolation and…
A funny kind of energy ripples through a crowd as Wallace Shawn saunters through, as he did on March 9 at Greenwich…
Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best…
At a pro-Palestine rally in Paris last September, Bobby of the London punk duo Bob Vylan delivered the following speech on the…
With the Super Bowl just days away, anticipation for the halftime show centers on Bad Bunny, whose powerful remarks at the Grammy…
If you donāt find my music on a music streaming platform, itās not because I boycotted it, itās because I was blacklisted.…
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