The Supremes, with their polished performances and family-friendly lyrics, helped to bridge a cultural divide and temper racial tensions. AP Photo/Frings When Sly and the Family Stone released “Everyday People” at the end of 1968,…
That year, the pillars of 1960s pop music released unfocused, confused albums. Thitkorn Krireuk/Shutterstock.com While the first half of 1968 was a series of explosive moments – the Tet Offensive, Paris protests, the assassinations of…
When The Village Voice shut down in August, the city’s protest movements lost one of their biggest champions. Nick Lehr/The Conversation When The Village Voice, the nation’s first alternative weekly, closed in late August, social…
‘Psychedelic,’ an image created by the algorithm AICAN. Ahmed Elgammal, Author provided When artificial intelligence has been used to create works of art, a human artist has always exerted a significant element of control over…
Mario Klingemann’s ‘Neural Glitch Portrait 153552770’ was created using a generative adversarial network. Mario Klingemann, Author provided With AI becoming incorporated into more aspects of our daily lives, from writing to driving, it’s only natural…
On an October night in 1998, Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, driven to a remote field, tied to a fence and left to die. The cyclist who found…
Those mesmerized by NASA’s accomplishments and ambitions wanted so much more out of the reticent Armstrong. AP Photo According to a Gallup Poll from 1999, only 50 percent of those surveyed could even name Neil…
A bridge in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, was destroyed in the recent earthquake and tsunami. AP Photo/Aaron Favila I’ve been visiting the city of Palu in Central Sulawesi, a province in Indonesia, for the past…
The statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle, New York City. Zoltan Tarlacz/Shutterstock.com In 1492, when Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic Ocean in search of a fast route to East Asia and the southwest Pacific,…
Most memoirs are soon forgotten. A rare exception is Anne Moody’s “Coming of Age in Mississippi,” which was published in 1968. It spoke to the day’s pressing issues – poverty, race and civil rights –…