Happy International Men's Day 2025: International Men's Day is celebrated on Nov. 19 every year. The day serves as an occasion to recognise the contribution of men to their families, communities and ...

Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed ...

The Book of Genesis is deceptive. It has a rich cast of characters: Abraham and Sarah read like the Ralph and Alice Kramden of the Bible (yes, God would be the Art Carney); then there's the tension ...

Every once in a while McDonald’s brings a Happy Meal toy so good even adults are out to get theirs, and that’s exactly what’s happening here with Yu-Gi-Oh! and Hello Kitty’s latest collaboration. Here ...

Our journalism is only possible with support from you, our readers. The news mainstream media just doesn’t cover. Racial justice journalism since 1909. Jordan E. Cooper, a powerful advocate for the ...

An impending flood is the least of one family’s troubles in this outrageous reimagining of Noah’s Ark. Oh Happy Day! begins in Laurel, Mississippi at a Birthday BBQ for Lewis, the patriarch of a ...

Scene from the New York premiere of OH HAPPY DAY!, written by Jordan E. Cooper and directed by Stevie Walker-Webb. Photo credit: Joan Marcus. New York’s Public Theater has hit paydirt with a fresh, ...

The last time that the composer Heather Christian’s “Oratorio for Living Things” appeared on a New York stage, it was spring of 2022, and the act of gathering still felt a little brave. We had waited ...

Jordan E. Cooper is not experiencing the usual sophomore slump — certainly not at the Public Theater, where his newest play had its world premiere Wednesday. “Ain’t No Mo’,” his first play at the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah. By ...

Jordan E. Cooper is a playwright of reclamation. In his previous 2022 play at The Public Theater, “Ain’t No Mo,” he set out to reclaim Black America, the contributions of its people, and the ...