Experience the fusion of jazz and poetry as Lakewood Cultural Center hosts ASK YOUR MAMA, featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet, ...

The Lakewood Cultural Center Presents 2025-2026 season is generously supported by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities ...

Howard Godfrey, The Musical Offering’s composer, typically writes musical theater works. But when the community music ...

Paul Robeson was a superstar of the stage and screen, a talented football player and a music hitmaker. Then came a dramatic ...

We all know the usual suspects when it comes to classic literature. Pride and Prejudice gets another adaptation, The Great Gatsby remains required reading, and everyone still debates whether they ...

More than 1,100 students walked into Langston Hughes Middle School in Reston shortly after 7 a.m., Monday, Aug. 26. Principal Aimee Monticchio stood near the Main Office trailer. She welcomed the ...

As the Harlem Renaissance unfolded in the 1920s, few were closer to its hub than the black poet and playwright Langston Hughes and his white friend and mentor, the writer, photographer and patron of ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, is so ...

Arthur Gregory Pugh plays the Elder in Black Nativity, and for him, the role is more than a performance — it’s a connection to family, faith, and history. In a modern-day church scene, Pugh preaches, ...

"Deeter contributes imposing artwork to Walker's first book for children, originally published in 1974, impressively meshing realism and symbolism in her period paintings," wrote PW. Ages 7-11. (Jan.) ...

British poet and painter Frieda Hughes’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, and London Magazine. Her first full-length collection of poems, Wooroloo, was published by HarperCollins in ...

From celebrating civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., to concerts and theatrical performances, there's plenty to do ...