Billy Strayhorn is best known as the composing partner of Duke Ellington; together they created classic tunes like “Lush Life ...

Happy birthday to super-composer Billy Strayhorn, who was born on this day in 1915. Billy Strayhorn is best known as the composing partner of Duke Ellington; together they created classic …..

Arkady Renko is not dead, but we’ve heard all of his tales that we’ll ever hear. That’s because his creator, Martin Cruz Smith, died this July at age 82. The …..

Arkady Renko is not dead, but we’ve heard all of his tales that we’ll ever hear. That’s because his amazing creator, Martin Cruz Smith, died this July at age 82. Smith spent the last 30 years of his ...

President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100, at his home in Plains, Georgia. If you didn’t like and admire this excellent public servant, have your heart examined. He did his best for America before, ...

A few nights ago I decided on a whim to look for any Humphrey Bogart film I’d never seen. I landed on Sahara, a 1943 war film that was Bogart’s next flick after Casablanca. (“Bogey + North Africa, ...

Here’s a great little video from Variety in which actress Emily Blunt is handed cards with lines from some of her past roles and tries to remember the movies. It’s fun! She’s done 52 different ...

Most people recognize that there are first names given almost exclusively by Black Americans to their children, such as Jamal and Latasha. As scholars of history, demographics and economics, we found ...

Hello, friends of Who2! Fritz Holznagel here, co-founder (with Paul Hehn) of Who2. I’ve taken a new side gig as the quizmaster of The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to unlocking ...

On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After ...

On a beautiful snowy Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday in Boston, we went to the Boston Common to see the new tribute to Dr. King and his wife, Coretta Scott King. The statue, or sculpture, is titled ...