“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the ...

Dutch drummer Sebastiaan de Krom (Dordrecht, 1970) plays drums with jazz artists like Geoff Gascoyne and Jamie Cullum. He started playing drums at age three. Sebastiaan de Krom received his frst ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of women in shaping discourses of gender equality during the French Revolution (1789-1794), situating their activism within the intellectual framework of the ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

The year before Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, another writer, Olympe de Gouges, published a comparable call for equality during the turmoil of revolutionary France.

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

Synopsis: Locked up in her cell at the Conciergerie shortly before her trial, Olympe de Gouges confided in Fabien, her jailer, before being taken before the Revolutionary Tribunal presided over by ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. On a rainy Thursday evening in downtown Athens, the Morton Theatre hosted the ...

In the sixth installment of the franchise, Scary Movie claimed the number one position at the box office this weekend, outperforming Masters of the Universe. Our Hero, Balthazar is a drama about two ...

A man sentenced to death for the brutal murder of his wife and children, in a horrific act of self-mutilation, gouged out both of his eyes and ate them in an attempt to avoid execution. Andre Thomas ...