Black Panther (February 16)  In 1966, the Black Panther burst into popular consciousness as the first mainstream comic-book superhero of African descent. And now he’s the first black character to...

On display in the NJCU Visual Arts Gallery until December 14 is "On a Different Page" an exhibit filled with artists' visions of their works using the book as an art form. Books are an intrinsic...

The Thor movies are no one’s favorite. I watched but couldn’t tell you what happened in the last one. "Thor: Ragnarok" even pokes fun at this with a playful, cameo filled reenactment of the end of...

“Wicked”—a fitting name for the Broadway show I went to see this spring. The protagonist is draped in a melancholy black lace dress, a black hat and a matching cape set off by skin as green as the...

Helene Stapinski is the author of The Five-Finger Discount: A Crooked Family History and the star of the documentary by the same name that recently aired on PBS. Her book is a memoir about her life in...

  Your eyes are immediately drawn to a brightly colored sketch of a young girl in a military outfit roasting a marshmallow nearly as big as she is. Across from it, a heavily inked and detailed...

The Black Maria Film Festival launches its 36th Annual Tour in NJ with a series of five distinctive programs throughout the month of February 2017. Each program will be presented in-person by Festival...

Octavia Butler was an iconic black American sci-fi writer, winning multiple Hugo and Nebula awards for her work. A unique voice in science fiction, she was honored in last year’s acclaimed anthology...

"Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It’s an alien demi-god fighting a masked murderer?" I wanted this to be incredible. Like a lot of people, when I was younger I grew up on Batman:...

It was 8:30 on a blustery Monday night. A gust of wind pushed me inside Karnoutsos and, windswept, I took the elevator to the basement. Before the doors opened, I could hear laughter and singing coming...