The Academy Award season is officially upon us, which means that it’s time for an Oscar-friendly historical drama about race relations. Most recent years have one: “Hidden Figures” in 2016...

Among old belt-buckles, wooden furniture, yard appliances and music records, I found gold at a yard sale — a copy of Life Magazine from Sept. 15, 1947. It’s brimming with history, a time capsule of...

So you fancy yourself a bit of a runner? You’re a fan of carb loading. You idolize Forrest Gump. You can’t stop listening to “Eye of the Tiger.” And you’ve nicknamed yourself Usain Bolt. If...

So you want to run a marathon? That’s great. Really, you are an exquisite specimen of the human race. You are also insane. I mean, you’re aware that the first person who ran a marathon nonstop...

  On Thursday, the U will host Imani Perry, a professor from the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University, to give a keynote address on Martin Luther King Jr. The speech will...