Culture
Denzel Washington, Man on Fire. By Maureen Dowd / NYT
He put the R in rock ‘n’ roll: Remembering Little Richard. By Denise Oliver-Velez / Daily Kos
Josephine Baker is inducted into the French Pantheon. By Eleanor Beardsley / NPR
Virgil Abloh, famed fashion designer, dies of cancer at 41. By Justin Carissimo / CBS News
Is Black Twitter The New Green Book? By Alexandra Jane / The Root
Hanukkah’s darker origins feel more relevant in time of rising antisemitism, intense interest in identity. By Michelle Boorstein / Wash Post
Permission to Imagine. By Lovia Gyarkye / Dissent Magazine
Smokey Robinson stars in new Lifetime movie ‘Miracle in Motor City.’ By Julie Hinds / Detroit Free Press
Chance The Rapper, Dionne Warwick Team Up on ‘Nothing’s Impossible.’ By Ilana Kaplan / RollingStone
Don’t let the inspiring story of Josephine Baker story erase France’s pervasive racism. By Rokhaya Diallo / Wash Post
This Black Music Sunday, we’re cookin’ soul food while stuffing ourselves with the sounds of soul. By Denise Oliver-Velez / Daily Kos
Dave Chappelle Is Oblivious to His Own Racial Blind Spots in ‘The Closer.’ By Yahdon Israel / The Atlantic
Gordon Parks documentary on HBO only gives us half the picture. By Jesse Washington / The Undefeated
Melanie Charles knows the impact Black women have had on jazz. By Shannon J. Effinger / Wash Post
Passing Netflix movie: How the adaptation differs from Nella Larsen’s classic book. By Carla Kaplan / Slate
Terence Blanchard’s opera: “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” By CBS News
1619 Project Creator Nikole Hannah-Jones Talks About Her New Book. By Alexis Okeowo / Vanity Fair
R&B Icon Johnnie Taylor’s Heirs Battle Sony Over Unpaid Royalties. By Jonathan Bernstein / Rolling Stone
Review: Diana Ross gives us a dose of hope on ‘Thank You.’ By Mark Kennedy / ABC News
Tupac Shakur’s life, legacy to be subject of massive exhibit. By Jonathan Landrum Jr. / ABC News
They put a spell on us: Black musicians and spooky tunes for Halloween. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Jay-Z Is Inducted Into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. By Jon Blistein / Rolling Stone
New Netflix series on Kaepernick is a ‘springboard’ to conversations on race, privilege. By Amna Nawaz and Anne Azzi Davenport / NPR
Virginia governor race highlights irony of banning ‘Beloved’ from schools. By Dana A. Williams / NBC News
The Fearlessness of Passing. By Charles Taylor / Dissent
TV Diversity Is Improving On Screen. Behind The Camera, It’s Still Mostly White And Male. By Marina Fog / HuffPost
Gil Scott-Heron changed my life – and his humane message still resonates. By Abdul Malik Al Nasir / The Guardian
Review: ‘Color,’ by Countee Cullen. / NYT Archives
The Harder They Fall’s Idris Elba on Crafting His Scariest Villain Yet. By David Canfield / Vanity Fair
Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie, who put the bop into bebop. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
