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New Orleans in the early part of the 19th century was a singular place — and it still is. Before the Louisiana Purchase, the city’s racial and social barriers were permeable in ways they would never be again. John Guare’s latest play, the kaleidoscopic A Free Man of Color, now at the Vivian Beaumont Theater…

Isabel Wilkerson has added another important book to the long tradition of serious writings on the interplay between American society’s white-supremacist practices and the migration of black American citizens out of the viciously racist South to the North and West. Wilkerson subtitles her book, The Warmth of Other Suns (Random House, 2010), “The Epic Story…

Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def first performed together in the 2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway production of Topdog/Underdog, then followed that success with the film Cadillac Records, in 2008. Now they’re together again in playwright John Guare’s A Free Man of Color, which opened Thursday at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. It runs…

dream hampton first attracted attention in the ’90s when she was writing for the hip-hop bible, The Source, but what most people don’t realize is that writing was simply a diversion from hampton’s real love, film. “You can’t help how people identify you, but film was the only reason I was in New York in…

In Dreams From My Father, President Barack Obama writes eloquently about why he chose to make Chicago his adult home. The city has traditionally been the political and economic capital of black America, while New York’s Harlem has held the mantle as its cultural capital. More black U.S. senators have come from Chicago than anywhere…