Most of the people accused of treason and/or subversion were union workers, government employees, prominent intellectuals, ...

As Broadway prepares to reckon with the effect of McCarthyism on journalism in the new drama, Good Night and Good Luck, go ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

These men—the Hollywood Ten—refused to answer questions ... become known as “the bible” of the broadcast blacklist. Titled “Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio ...

Today, it’s helpful to remember, though, that Hollywood resisted ... Nicknamed “Billy’s blacklist,” it supplied a handy target list for ambitious red-baiters on Capitol Hill who ...

In 'Red Scare,' Risen analyzes the rise and fall of McCarthyism a plague that our country has never fully conquered.

In a new book that’s just out, a Southern Virginia University professor delves into the history of blacklisting in Hollywood during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s. “Policing Show Business: J.

An early civil rights pioneer, she faced down the Red Scare at the risk of losing her ... who challenged the way blacks were portrayed in media, in Hollywood. -She's at the forefront of what ...

The play introduces Benny Silverman, a celebrated comic who has revived his career via television after many years of forced inactivity that resulted from being named on the Hollywood blacklist of ...