DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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2021
Feb
16
 
 
The Black church, like the Black community, isn't the monolithic entity to which it is sometimes reduced in sociological shorthand. But like the Black community, it has a deceptive strength, and part of that strength stems from its diversity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
16
 
 
For centuries, the Black church has towered over American life...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
16
 
 
As a few new shows bravely fight their way to the air in television's lost season, NBC hopes that cooped-up Americans will embrace a pair of sitcoms featuring two of the country's best-known and best-liked stars...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
 
 
The world seemed to agree that Marian Anderson was a great singer. Audiences cheered; critics raved. Conductor Arturo Toscanini said this was a voice "one is privileged to hear only once in 100 years."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
 
 
A new documentary on Kim Jong-un suggests the North Korean supreme commander faces a dilemma, not unlike that faced by Al Pacino's Michael Corleone in Godfather II...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
 
 
Marian Anderson did not want to become a political symbol. She just wanted to be a singer. She ended up being both, and, frankly, it was partly kind of her own fault...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
15
 
 
Today in 1988, HBO debuted the political mocumentary Tanner '88, a collaboration between Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau and director Robert Altman...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
 
 
On this day in 1993, CBS aired part one of the three-part miniseries, Alex Haley's Queen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
 
 
We've heard plenty about evil stepmothers, so let's hear the flip side – the good stepmother who helped shape the man who preserved the Union...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
14
 
 
The filming is often as dark as the story in the new miniseries The Luminaries...