This article contains descriptions of violence and harassment against a Black trans woman. Kassim Omar, a 29-year-old Somali trans woman who loved to dance and sing, has died of injuries sustained ...

Omar ibn Said wrote the only known autobiography in Arabic of an enslaved person in the United States. Here is his life, in art and history. The new work, co-written by folk artist Rhiannon ...

The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra will present “Omar’s Journey,” a concert opera adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, Saturday and ...

The Quad-City Symphony Orchestra will present “Omar’s Journey,” a concert opera adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, Saturday and Sunday ...