Culture
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
Tupac Shakur could win his first Grammy almost 30 years after his death. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
The enduring allure of Jay-Z’s ‘The Black Album.’ By Justin Tinsley / Andscape
Dawoud Bey, Full Frame: On Richmond’s Trail of the Enslaved. By Siddhartha Mitter / NYT
Authors of George Floyd book were told not to talk about systemic racism at Tenn. school event. By Char Adams / NBC News
Black Music Sunday: Swingin’ with the legendary Buck Clayton on his birthday. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
The Jazz Continuum’ explores Black social dance — from past to present. By Celia Wren / Wash Post
35 Years After Its Debut, Tracy Chapman’s ‘Fast Car’ Wins a Song of the Year Award. By Mike Ives / NYT
The Black National Anthem Was Created On This Day. Here’s What You Probably Didn’t Know About It. By Melissa Noel / Essence
Hip-Hop Was Born in New York City, But Its Roots Are in the Caribbean. By Alex La Rotta / Yahoo News
‘City of a Million Dreams’ documents Black jazz funeral tradition of New Orleans. By Nate Tinner-Williams / NCR
Louis Armstrong Gets the Last Word on Louis Armstrong. By Ethan Iverson / The Nation
George C. Wolfe Would Not Be Dismissed. By Vinson Cunningham / The New Yorker
The Original Black Girl Magic: Meet The Black Woman Who Ignited The Salem Witch Trials. By Rayna Reid Rayford / Essence
Latino voices on family, sports, legacy, music, tradition and language. By Betty Chavarria, et al / Wash Post
Black Music Sunday: Tricking and treating to the ‘Zombie Jamboree’ for Halloween. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Why Tupac Never Died. By Hua Hsu / The New Yorker
Richard Roundtree, Star of ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 81. By Anita Gates / NYT
