The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art came alive Jan. 23 with community, vulnerability and poetry. The “Writers Give Voice: ...

His concert at Manchester’s Co-op Arena in May last year featured a lengthy onstage broadside against Donald Trump, and his long history of political activism and recording songs that speak truth to ...

NEW YORK - Long before Public Enemy urged the need to "Fight the Power" or N.W.A. offered a crude rebuke of the police, Gil Scott-Heron was articulating the rage and the disillusionment of the black ...

Themes of guilt, punishment and redemption are common currency in prison dramas, but Petra Volpe’s terrific Frank & Louis ...

The “newspaper of record’ misses a golden opportunity to explain the material connections between violence “there” and ...

A compilation of all of Deadline's movie reviews from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, the final one in Park City before the ...

On 15 January 1981, music legends Diana Ross and Gladys Knight, along with the 'godfather of rap', Gil Scott-Heron, joined ...

Stevie Wonder's soulful melodies and commitment to social justice played a pivotal role in the creation of Martin Luther King ...

Decades before Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” dominated the charts, another Black woman from Texas transcended genres with her hit country songs. Her name was Esther Phillips, and she was best known for ...

Paste Magazine is The A.V. Club‘s source for music news and lists, artist interviews, and album reviews. This week, we unveiled our AOTY list, which was topped by the likes of Nourished by Time, CMAT, ...

I finally got around to seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent new film, One Battle After Another, which is a favorite to win Best Picture at next year’s Academy Awards. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a ...

In 1971, poet-musician Gil Scott-Heron penned the now-famous spoken-word poem “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: “You better get off your couch and do something because you’re not gonna see it on ...