The Zambian-born director has, with only two features, stunned film festivals and emerged as a major African voice, one ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

Across central and south Louisiana, groups of men dress in fringed costumes, funny hats and mesh masks, then take off ... of Mardi Gras runs also echo West African and Caribbean traditions ...

The accessories include skin masks, chin straps that supposedly help reduce the appearance ... One Instagram user wrote, “I ...

Let me begin with a lesson on history! Non-professional historians lack the expertise to differentiate history from fiction, not necessarily ...

For one performance only, the Alden Theatre in McLean, Va., presents “Forbidden Broadway” (Sunday, March 16, 2 p.m.). Filled ...

Gertrude Abercrombie was funny, curator Sarah Humphreville notes ... and uneasiness that simmered beneath her eccentric mask as she struggled to fit into societal expectations.

He dips to the line and celebrates, and the officials announce that his winning time of 20.04 hasn’t simply smashed yet ...

“You all know that there was nothing fake about Paul: No artifice, no suit of armor or mask. Pableaux just gave ... and made you float on air. He was funny, and he was kind, and he gave of ...