Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears.


'Castor and Patience' opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership

Pulitzer-winning composer Anthony Davis based 'You Have The Right To Remain Silent,' released this week as a virtual performance, on his own experience with police.


A tense new classical work bottles the feeling of a police stop

Based on former federal prosecutor Mark Godsey's book of the same title, the new opera 'Blind Injustice' draws on detailed interviews with exonerees to put America's criminal justice system on trial.


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