By carrying My Autobiography, Dipke appeared to anchor his activism in the ideals of equality, dignity, education, and social ...

Henry David Thoreau, a profound American thinker, championed experiencing life directly over mere observation. His philosophy ...

The writer’s 1865 travelogue about his journeys along Massachusetts’s sandy peninsula is at once inquisitive and humble ...

Edgar Allan Poe lived a life of hardship, financial instability, and loss. Despite inventing many elements of the modern ...

Henry David Thoreau emphasises the importance of meaningful work and self-reflection in this quote. His ideas on simple living, industriousness, and the value of labor remain relevant even today, ...

Social activism and jazz have a long mutual history that arguably reached an apex with the resistance music of the '60s. On record, that music found a home at labels such as Impulse! and ESP-Disk. At ...

As a 71-year-old grandmother, my knees didn’t cooperate when police lifted me to arrest me at the state Capitol in Harrisburg on May 4. I was there as part of a peaceful anti-corruption protest ...

In September 2025, the Trump administration filed a civil Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (or FACE Act) case against pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside a New Jersey synagogue. And in ...

President Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran, his administration's deportation efforts and U.S. support of Israel's attacks in Gaza have turned the tax season's familiar 1040 into a new ...

“Henry David Thoreau,” a three-part, three-hour documentary directed by Erik and Christopher Loren Ewers, premieres on PBS on March 30 and 31, 2026. Executive produced by Ken Burns and Don Henley, it ...

The explosion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools has provoked both hopes and anxieties about the potential benefits and harms of this technology. In advanced economies, people are almost ...

Civil Disobedience is a project initiated by New York bassist David Ambrosio, showcasing the works of progressive jazz composers from the late 1960s Blue Note Era. By performing the politically ...