The score and cinematography in Brief History of a Family create a unique atmosphere. Xilun Sun's enigmatic performance keeps audiences guessing until the end. The film's ambiguity in the finale lacks ...

African American history does not provide a great vantage point on the history of human flourishing. Instead, it is one of the most depressing subfields in American history—second perhaps only to ...

The ways we talk about the future have been decidedly...darker over the past half century, a hard turn from the sunny optimism that informed most visions of the world to come for decades before that.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE FUTURE – EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KATHRYN MURDOCH, ARI WALLACH, WENDY SCHMIDT, AND DRAKE’S DREAMCREW – SET TO PREMIERE APRIL 3, 2024, ON PBS NEW SIX-PART PBS SERIES EXPLORES ...

American actress Jashaun St. John was just a teenager when she rose to fame playing Blue -- the sensitive and quiet girl from New Mexico, traveling with her bestie -- in the 2015 adventure/drama film ...

Perhaps the earliest chronicles of homeless New Yorkers can be attributed to Jacob Riis. A journalist and precursor in the art of documentary photography, Riis emigrated from Denmark in the mid 19th ...