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Marian Anderson performing in 1956 with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, led by Eugene Ormandy.

Marian Anderson lives on, now as a namesake for the Kimmel Center's main concert hall

The Philadelphia Orchestra's main concert hall will soon be renamed Marian Anderson Hall, honoring a legendary contralto and civil rights icon — and a lifelong Philadelphian.

Relatives of Abdelwahab Zaydoun, a 27-year-old Moroccan who set himself on fire to protest his unemployment and died from his burns, react to his death in Casablanca last month. A year after street protests in Morocco prompted some reforms, Moroccans remain discontent with the gap between rich and poor, and the slow strides toward democracy.

In Morocco, The Arab Spring's Mixed Bounty

On Feb. 20, 2011, Moroccans took to the streets in protest in a country considered one of the most stable in the region. King Mohammed VI acted quickly, offering constitutional reforms and early elections. But progress toward democracy has also revealed the limits of civil disobedience.

A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement places tape over a window of a foreclosed home during a march in the impoverished community of East New York in Brooklyn in December.

The Mortgage Deal: A Reality Check

The $26 billion settlement reached by the federal government, most states and the nation's largest banks to compensate homeowners for abusive foreclosure practices is unlikely to end the housing crisis, analysts say. It could also lead to a new round of foreclosures, which would drive prices even lower.

Update: Limbaugh Loses Ninth Advertiser Over Comments About Law Student

AOL today joined other advertisers to pull adds from the radio host's nationally syndicated program in the wake of his words about a young woman who has spoken out in favor of insurers paying the cost of women's contraception services.

Demolished ships lie strewn about near the fishing port of Minamisanriku town, in Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, Feb. 23, 2012. The local fisherman's union says last year's tsunami wiped out 90 percent of local fishing boats.

Rethinking, Not Just Rebuilding, Japan's Northeast

The northeast coast of Japan has an older population, fewer jobs and more tsunamis than the rest of the country. The regional economy had been declining long before last year's disaster. Many people say in order to survive, the region needs to remake itself.

Slut: The Other Four Letter S-Word

Rush Limbaugh said a number of things about Sandra Fluke that created such a stir that he ultimately had to apologize. But most of the reactions focused on that one word: slut. Linguist Geoff Nunberg observes that our reaction to the word says quite a lot about the society we live in.

A still from the Minnesota musicians' YouTube campaign.

(More) Lockouts, Lawsuits And Losses

Minnesota goes to YouTube, classical "geniuses," and another fiddle seized at the airport: a roundup of all the classical news that's fit to link.

Composer Mohammed Fairouz, whose hour-long chamber opera <em>Sumeida's Song</em> recently appeared on recording and on stage.

Lean But Seen: The Joy Of Smaller Opera

A intense but modestly scaled new opera called Sumeia's Song, written by rising young Arab-American composer Mohammed Fairouz, offers clues into how chamber-sized presentations can be successfully both financially and artistically. And Philip Glass' new Walt Disney opera streams for free Wednesday.

Harpist Edna Phillips And The Philadelphia Orchestra: One Woman In A Hundred

A biography by writer Mary Sue Welsh reveals what it was like to be the first woman to enter the all-male sanctum of The Philadelphia Orchestra in the…

Jazz Album of the Week: Adrian Cunningham and La Lucha Deem 2020 The Year for New Holiday Classics

December 14, 2020. La Lucha’s Everybody Wants to Rule the World—with its ensemble cast and eclectic mix of Klezmer-flavored cumbias, Columbian bambucos,…

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