Culture
Kevin Hart & Chris Rock: Headliners Only’ Review: Sold-Out Laughs. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
I’m Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me. By Miriam Zinter / HuffPost
Nicki Minaj Faces Hip-Hop’s Middle-Age Conundrum. By Spencer Kornhaber / The Atlantic
Beyoncé Net Worth: How She Makes and Spends Her Fortune. By Polly Thompson / Business Insider
‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Star André Braugher Dies at 61. By Emell Adolphus / The Root
Tunisians take issue with Denzel Washington playing historic general in new film. By Variety and NBC News
Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line. By Alyssa Lopez / AAIHS
Norman Lear (1922-2023) Reshaped How America Saw Black Families. By Jonathan Abrams and Christopher Kuo / NYT
Black Music Sunday: Remembering Guitar Slim and the things he used to do. By Denise Oliver-Velez / Daily Kos
Ellen Holly, ‘One Life to Live’ star and the first Black actor to lead a daytime TV show, dies at 92. By Variety and NBC News
Sean Combs faces fourth sexual assault lawsuit in less than a month. By Anne Branigin / Wash Post
Budgets for ‘prestige’ films dried up. So Ava DuVernay found a new way. By Geoff Edgers / Wash Post
Black Music Sunday: Kabiosile (all hail) Chango! By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
‘Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé’ Is A Love Letter To The Beyhive. By Ruth Etiesit Samuel / HuffPost
‘Thriller 40’ revisits Michael Jackson’s magnum opus. By Mellissa Ruggleri / USA Today
She wasn’t the first, but Queen Latifah was special from the start. By Geoff Edgers / Wash Post
The Highly Anticipated “Book Of Clarence” Drops New Trailer. By Hollywood Unlocked
Can Dionne Warwick get an amen? Always. By Sonia Rao / Wash Post
Black Music Sunday: ‘Simply the Best’: Remembering Tina Turner on her birthday. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Betye Saar Reassembles the Lives of Black Women. By Hilton Als / The New Yorker
Cassie’s Lawsuit Against Diddy, Explained. By Zane Guy / New York Magazine
Chick Webb, The King of Swing. By Alice Nicholas / AAIHS
For Usher, outdoing himself is the only way forward. By Chris Richards / Wash Post
Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief. By Lauren Christensen / NYT
‘Rustin’ shines a long overdue spotlight on the architect of the March on Washington. By Max Gao / NBC News
Black Music Sunday: Prep your holiday meal with a side of ‘that sweet soul music.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
