Culture
How Hip-Hop Has Enhanced American Education Over The Past 50 Years, From Rec Rooms To Classrooms. By Toby Jenkins / The Converstion
The Artist Mark Bradford Is Finally Ready To Go There. By Ismail Muhammad / NYT
Asian And Black Representation Grew In Film And Television, Study Finds. By Variety
Remembering Paul Robeson: ‘I Had No Alternative.’ By Paul Von Blum / The Progressive
How I came to see the beauty in my heritage — and myself. By Ling Ling Huang / Wash Post
As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. By Samantha Ege and Douglas Shadle / NYT
Solange Curates Powerful Performances of Black Joy and Pain at BAM. By Giovanni Russonello / NYT
Artist Juan de Pareja, who was once enslaved, has been misunderstood for centuries. By Jacqui Palumbo / CNN
North Dakota names its first Native American poet laureate. By AP and NPR
Black Music Sunday: A-tisket, a-tasket, a mix of genres make up this musical Easter basket. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
The school comedy ‘Abbott Elementary’ has Philadelphia teachers talking. By Aubri Juhasz / NPR
Black singles with college education embrace life without marriage. By Kris Marsh / The Conversation
‘I’m Gonna Take as Much of It as I Can’: Tyler Perry Aims to Bring Black Ownership Back to BET In Potential Acquisition as Majority Stakeholder. By Niko Mann / Atlanta Black Star
‘Big George Foreman’ Trailer: Boxer Gets New Movie From Sony – Variety. By Ej Panaligan / Variety
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams. By Giovanni Russonello / NYT
Smithsonian’s Afrofuturism exhibit explores the funk of outer and inner space. By Lonnae O’Neal / Andscape
R&B star Kem bares his soul for a memoir “soaked in the blues.” By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew.’ By Marcus J. Moore / NYT
The Black Artists Claiming More Space Than Ever Before. By Emily Lordi / NYT
‘A Thousand And One’ Is The Nuanced Film About Black Motherhood We Need Right Now. By Sage Howard / HuffPost
25% of Black women say they were denied job interviews because of their hair, survey says. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Aaron Douglas’ History Lesson on the Responsibility of Black Artists. By Tiffany Pennamon / AAIHS
How a Black woman gospel singer helped pioneer rock ‘n’ roll. By Natasha S. Alford / The Grio
Growing demand for HBCU bands’ talent increases their time in national spotlight. By Darren A. Nichols / Andscape
Meet the Black musician behind Elvis’ biggest songs, who had to give up his writing credits and never met The King in person. By Brianna Holt / Insider
Black Music Sunday: These Black divas sang a classical storm of opera. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
