This week offers up a wealth of concert options, in the symphonic, new bluegrass, white R&B and hybrid Mexican zones.

Ruth Handler, who co-founded Mattel with her husband, Elliot Handler, and Harold Matson in 1945, noticed her daughter, Barbara, playing with paper dolls and dreaming about what kind of woman she would ...

Quintard Taylor’s research redefined understandings of the African American experience to include lives, geographies and ...