Broadway composer and musical theatre revolutionary Stephen Sondheim died Friday at 91. In his career that lasted nearly half a century, he wrote the lyrics for West Side Story, composed shows like Sweeney...

It shouldn't take a mass killing to reject the rebel flag and the racism it represents. My mom is a 5-foot-2 130-pound white woman, and my dad is a 6-foot, 210-pound black man. That leaves my brother,...