Culture
Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t. By Jesse Green / NYT
Snoop Dogg is converting Death Row Records into the first NFT music label. By Chris Morris / Fortune
How The Natural Hair Movement Has Failed Black Women. By Esther Akutekha / HuffPost
Blaxploitation classics like ‘Shaft’ radiate Black Power 50 years on. By Marco della Cava and Rasha Ali / USA Today
This Early Film Depicting Black Love Went Hidden For Years. By Brittany Wong / HuffPost
10 years after Whitney Houston’s death, what have we learned about her — and ourselves? By Allison Stewart / Wash Post
A Black Music collection dedicated to our loves and lovers, on Valentine’s Day and all year round. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Why Toni Morrison Books Are Frequent Targets of Book Bans. By Olivia B. Waxman / Time
It’s Time To Shed Light On Black Americans’ Contributions To The Coffee Industry. By Garin Pirnia / HuffPost
ABC’s ‘Abbott Elementary’ and the mockumentary genre are a match made in TV heaven. By Sarah John / NBC News
Family trees fill in the gaps for Black people seeking their ancestral roots. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
Lorraine Hansberry was ahead of her time. By Wendy Smith / Wash Post
My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life. By Viet Thanh Nguyen / NYT
Sundance Film Festival Brings Racial Justice to the Big Screen. By Asher Luberto / The Progressive
Let’s hear it for the doo-wop girl groups: Their songs of love and heartbreak shaped a generation. By Denise Oliver-Velez / Daily Kos
In memory of Paul Robeson, the man whose voice they tried to silence. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
How the brilliant André Leon Talley got sidelined. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
New Tupac Shakur exhibit, ‘Wake Me When I’m Free,’ looks at the revolution that created the revolutionary. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
‘Abbott Elementary’ gets an ‘A’ in its first season. By David Dennis Jr. / The Undefeated
André Leon Talley Has Died At 73. By Emilia Petrarca / New York Mag
Bullerengue Legend Petrona Martinez Continues To Inspire. By Julyssa Lopez / Rolling Stone
Let us rejoice today with music honoring and celebrating the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Lionel Richie to receive Gershwin Prize for pop music. Jonathan Landrum Jr / PBS
Denzel Washington wants viewers to look past Macbeth’s race. By Arturo Conde / NBC News
In Zora Neale Hurston’s Essays, the Nonfiction of a Nonconformist. By Dwight Garner / NYT
Anita Hill hits genealogy ‘lottery’ on ‘Finding Your Roots. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
