10 stories by "Jonathan Abrams"
Derek Klena was a successful actor with a Tony nomination to his name. But he’s found a bigger audience with the barnstorming baseball sensation.
On the prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place," she played one of TV's first Black female antagonists. She was also a fixture in blaxploitation films.
The character actor had grown up in Maryland, where "The Wire" was set, and went on to star in horror films like "It Chapter Two."
The comedian's long-running feud with the late-night sketch show is a topic in the new Netflix documentary "Being Eddie."
"Freedom Riders," a performance featuring monologues about police violence against Black people, played in cities throughout the South before returning to New York.
A production partly aimed at students that highlights Tampa's history in the civil rights movement lands at a time when the state is changing what schools teach about race and history.
The two actors talk about how the stage and screen great was a one-of-a-kind inspiration to them, and many others.
Women are competing in breaking in greater numbers and, thanks to better training and more opportunities, with more dynamic moves.
A panel of nine judges will apply Olympic rules to the dance form that originated as a free-flowing expression of hip-hop culture.
Largely left out of commemorations of hip-hop's 50th anniversary, breaking will get a grand stage at the Paris Olympics. B-boys and B-girls wonder if their art will translate into sport.
