It was adorned with pictures of the Washington ... family drama but it is also a profound ghost story. For the Charles family, wrangling over the piano is a reckoning with their family’s past ...

In the 1850s, reading aloud was the primary form of at-home entertainment. Daily newspapers ran no images, and the technology to reproduce photographs in books or periodicals was still 40 years away.

Image Danielle Deadwyler and John David ... turns the lurking idea of ghosts haunting the piano from the more figurative — ghosts lurk in America, especially in Black families — into something ...

It was adorned with pictures of the Washington ... family drama but it is also a profound ghost story. For the Charles family, wrangling over the piano is a reckoning with their family’s past ...

The piano on the set of “The Piano Lesson” was not a mere prop. It could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and their ancestors. It ...

The piano on the set of “The Piano Lesson” was not a mere prop. It could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and their ancestors.