How one organization is helping underprivileged youths showcase their cultures through art

Ingmar Bergman, modern cinema’s most masterful screenwriter and director, died peacefully in his sleep on July 30. He was 89. Although widely unknown to younger film-viewing generations, Bergman’s films were hailed by peers and critics alike as some of the most artful and genius work to have ever been recorded on film. His repertoire of [...]

Kurt Vonnegut, who died last month, named his first-born son after the great author Mark Twain. Of course, Vonnegut and Twain never met. Twain, who like Vonnegut was a humanist, died in 1910, at age 75. Kurt Vonnegut was born in 1922. So it is quite telling that Vonnegut would name his son after a [...]

David Halberstam, one of the most well-respected and influential journalists of the 20th century, died on April 23. He was 73. Mr. Halberstam was best known for his reporting on the Vietnam War for the New York Times, as well as the extraordinarily well-received books he wrote, including The Best and the Brightest and The [...]

March 10 marked the 200th day that freelance journalist Josh Wolf has been in prison for refusing to comply with a Grand Jury subpoena asking him to turn over an unedited version of July 8, 2005 video footage of a protest in San Francisco. It also requested his testimony regarding the event. Wolf was initially [...]