Edna Lewis gathers ingredients in the garden behind Ellerslie Plantation west of Charlottesville, Virginia, 1975. John T. Hill Some children are obsessed with soldiers, dinosaurs, princesses. Edna ...

Tens of thousands of people are expected to turn out across the country this week to protest President Donald Trump's administration and to honor the legacy of one of the nation's most enduring ...

Ananda Lewis, a former MTV VJ who connected a generation of music fans to their favorite celebrities on the music network, has died. She was 52. The news was confirmed by her sister Lakshmi Emory, who ...

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, David Plotz spoke with historian David Greenberg about his new book, John Lewis: A Life. They dug into ...

In the early weeks of 2008, as Barack Obama was fighting Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Presidential nomination, many Party members felt obliged to pick a side, and to lend their voices to the ...

In his new biography, David Greenberg tells the full story of the civil rights hero who became a long-serving U.S. representative. John Lewis during a sit-in in Nashville in 1964.Credit...Danny ...

On Wednesday, I became the first member of the public to watch something countless cinephiles have waited decades to see: Jerry Lewis’s footage of himself playing a clown in the Holocaust. Donated to ...

Writer Lewis H. Lapham, longtime editor of Harper’s Magazine and the founder of Lapham’s Quarterly, died in Rome. He was 89. Lewis Lapham, the editor of Harper’s Magazine, stands near his office in ...

In 1972, the actor directed and starred in a film about a circus performer sent to a concentration camp where he must entertain Jewish children headed for the gas chambers, but it was never released.

Marcedes Lewis will take his career into a 19th NFL season. The tight end, who turned 40 last month, has re-signed with the Chicago Bears, the team announced on Monday. Lewis appeared in all 17 games ...

Comedian Richard Lewis built a career on making himself a punchline, but in HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” sincerity was his specialty. As a fictionalized version ...

LOS ANGELES — Richard Lewis, the beloved stand-up comedian and a star of "Curb Your Enthusiasm," has died, his publicist announced. Lewis, 76, died at his home in Los Angeles after he had a heart ...