The fact that audiences see the story as aspirational is more of a reflection on us as fallen people than the film itself.

Major League Baseball is finally incorporating stats recorded by Negro League players as part of M.L.B.’s official record books.  

Frederick Douglass traveled to Ireland after escaping slavery in the U.S. and there was inspired by the politics of Irish nationalist leader Daniel O’Connell.

The easiest way through the recognition of our sinfulness is through humor.

The longtime 'America' illustrator John Hapgood served in World War II in the “Ghost Army,” a unit dedicated to deception and trickery that ran 21 different ersatz military campaigns between D-Day and the surrender of Germany in May 1945.

For James Joyce, humanity’s faulty condition “is happy because faults, errors, mistakes and misunderstandings” are the birth of comedy, writes Gabrielle Carey in a new biography.