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Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander recently embarked on a month-long tour in celebration of the release of Rebound, prequel to his 2014 novel-in-verse, The Crossover. Alexander traveled to bookstores and libraries across the country aboard a bus featuring […]

Group exhibition features artists inspired and given opportunities by “Black Panther” Bryan Moss hadn’t realized it at the time, but every time he went to see “Black Panther” in the theater, he was with white

The King Arts Complex continues to remember the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On April 4, 1968, Reverend King was shot and killed, on a balcony at the Lorraine

Today marks 50 years since the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., signifying a dark and senseless moment in the nation’s history. Many who are living today remember where they were and what they felt

Fifty years ago, on April 4, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis. King helped organize the largest call for civil rights in our nation’s history. With his

On the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr., Ohio State’s College of Social Work is coordinating with the King Arts Complex to host “Music and Racial Justice: From Abolition to Black Lives Matter” Wednesday

From the opening lines of Katori Hall’s “The Mountaintop” — as Martin Luther King Jr. shouts out the door of his motel room asking a fellow civil-rights leader to buy him some Pall Mall cigarettes

Short North Stage teams up with the King Arts Complex to bring a new production of The Mountaintop to the Green Room at the Garden Theater directed by Alan Bomar Jones. The production coincides with the 50th

In his youth, Otis Moss worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Now, as a self-described “elder,” Moss hopes to inspire emerging leaders in a new generation. The retired minister will speak April 5