Culture
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
Idris Elba and Considerations of Black Actor Identity. By Anique John / AAIHS
How the Surveillance of Black Hair Can Kill a Child’s Spirit. By Nia T. Evans and Arianna Coghill / Mother Jones
Exhibit of Black dolls offers lesson in legacy of slavery, racism. By Victor Barroco , Allie Weintraub, and Ashley Ennis / ABC News
The Visual Power of Black Rest. By Emily Lordi / The New Yorker
Killers of the Flower Moon: What is the true story about the Osage Murders? By Aja Romano / Vox
He spent a lifetime collecting the blues. The Smithsonian listened. By Geoff Edgers / Wash Post
Jazz’s Hancock Competition Returns, Crowning an Electrifying Rising Star. By Giovanni Russonello / NYT
How Jesmyn Ward Is Reimagining Southern Literature. By Imani Perry / NYT
‘The Burial’ Review: A Mississippi Courtroom Drama. By Glenn Kenny / NYT
How Racism Doomed Kim Novak and Sammy Davis Jr.’s Relationship in 1950s: ‘I Was Told Not to See Him.’ By Eric Andersson / People
Rudolph Isley, Founding Member Of Isley Brothers, Dies At 84. By AP and HuffPost
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the birth of Afrobeat. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
A shared resting place for Pharoah Sanders. By Harmony Holiday / NPR
Chris Rock and Steven Spielberg to collaborate on Martin Luther King Jr. biopic. By Variety / NBC News
Spike Lee has power. He’s still fighting it. By Yada Yuan / Wash Post
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sarah Vaughan. By Giovanni Russonello / NYT
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes – About the documentary / American Masters.
Rap duo Armand Hammer wants to expose the lie of the American Dream. By Jason Buford / Wash Post
Beyoncé’s journey to mastery. By Thembisa S. Mshaka / Andscape
Black Music Sunday: ‘Someday We’ll All Be Free’—Remembering Donny Hathaway on his birthday. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
