The show attempts to juggle a number of different issues and themes, but chief among them is a commitment to being a meditation on modern racial animus in the United States, and it does not shy away from controversial topics and ideas.

As a kid, my favorite show was about death. Strangest of all, I watched it on the Disney Channel.

A new PBS documentary makes us ask: Is it possible to admire the art produced by a writer whom the reader dislikes, disdains, perhaps even despises?

It is the perfect time to sink into the couch and run through the most hopeful show on television: “Ted Lasso.”

For true Chicagoans, theirs is the greatest American city, and also the one most in need of change.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a thought-provoking journey through American history using the Black church as an entry point and a lens for critical examination.