by October Gallery
After a distinguished career as a historian and Princeton professor, Nell Painter had earned the right to a restful retirement. Instead, at 64, she started over, chronicling that adventure in…
When voters in Wisconsin go to the polls for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 14, Mahlon Mitchell, a career firefighter and union president, hopes to pull out a…
By Grace Aldridge Foster “Simmon: A Private Landscape (#1),” by Hosoe Eikoh, Japan, 1971. Gelatin silver print. Renowned filmmakers Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck began collecting Japanese photography in the…
The sharecroppers who gathered at a small church in Elaine, Arkansas, in the late hours of September 30, 1919, knew the risk they were taking. Upset about unfair low wages,…
Philadelphia Printworks is a conscious clothing company that creates T-shirts, sweatshirts and other apparel with designs inspired by social issues and the legacies of revolutionary leaders. Even if you’re the…
The nonprofit organization behind the Common Application, a single form that students can fill out to apply to any college that uses it, announced this week that, starting next year,…
The movies have never quite been sure how seriously to take the Ku Klux Klan. Is it a terrorist organisation, or a glorified frat society for resentful losers who like…
At the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Armenian participants Mariam Hovhannisyan and Stepan Toroyan—who were recently married—recreated a traditional ceremony on the National Mall, with contributions from their compatriots. Tags: Armenia,…
On November 24, 2014, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced that there would be no criminal charges brought against Darren Wilson, the White former police officer who shot…
By Grace Aldridge Foster John Gossage, Diane Arbus in Washington Square Park, NYC, 1967, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in. Private Collection. (Photo copyright John Gossage) Diane Arbus’ photographs…