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During my high school days in Southern California (at Centennial High in Compton, to be specific), I was not into sports and lacked athletic...

October of this year will mark the 40th anniversary of In the Life , the groundbreaking black gay anthology edited by Joseph Beam and publis...

Back in the day, a radio buff like me could sit up late at night to hear radio stations as far away as San Francisco, Spokane (Washington), ...

Among the authors whose books I have found in free book kiosks, on street corners, and in front of apartment buildings are Harper Lee, Richa...

While going through some old manila file folders, I found a handwritten draft of a letter-to-the-editor written on canary yellow paper and d...

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, th...

While listening to the BBC News on New York's public radio station WNYC-AM 820, I heard that the TV actress June Lockhart ( Lassie and ...