Queerty on MSN19h
How revolutionary writer Essex Hemphill gave poetic voice to the Black Queer experience
New Directions Publishing Essex HemphillThe Great Storyteller 1957-1995 As a Black gay writer and activist, Essex Hemphill used words as a weapon, a ...
The Complicated History of Sabra, Marvel’s Israeli Superheroine
For generations Marvel has exported the idea of the national superhero around its globe in the wake of Captain America—but ...
Smithsonian Magazine4h
Josephine Baker’s Memoir Is Now Being Published for the First Time in English
A rare, intimate picture of Baker emerges in her memoir, Fearless and Free, originally published in France in 1949 and now ...
Jack the Ripper’s identity revealed after DNA match, historian says
A historian believes he has determined Jack the Ripper's identity through a DNA match of a shawl found at the scene of one of ...
Opelika Observer19h
Altar Call | Adopted by the poet who served pink jello
I ceased being an octogenarian and became a nonagenarian. And now, at age 92,  I can testify that many memories for ...