Culture
‘Kindred’ Review: Octavia Butler Comes to the Screen. By Mike Hale / NYT
Black Music Sunday: They joined the ancestors in 2022, but left behind the gifts of their music. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
From Lizzo to Megan Thee Stallion, 2022 was the year of survival for Black women in the public eye. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Whoopi Goldberg again claims Holocaust wasn’t originally about race. By Ll Cohen / CBS News
This is the year we were done with Kanye West – but what does that really mean? By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Kendrick Lamar’s New Chapter: Raw, Intimate and Unconstrained. By Mitchell S. Jackson / NYT
A Jazz Album Made to Last. By Nathan Heller / The New Yorker
How Megan Thee Stallion’s court battle highlights misogyny targeting Black women. By Lauren Barron-Lopez / PBS
‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ fact check: Whitney Houston’s true story. By Melissa Ruggleri / USA Today
The luxury tax assessed on Black women. By Channing Hargrove / Andscape
Guide to Kwanzaa 2022: What it is and how to celebrate. By Kaleb A. Brown / USA Today
Does the Meaning of a Song Change Depending on Who Wrote It? By Esau McCaulley / NYT
Black Music Sunday: Christmas a capella and more! By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
The Best Black Christmas Movies of the Last 20 Years. By Jumoke Balogun and Mitu Yilma / New York Magazine
The ‘Avatar’ sequel is getting heat from some Indigenous people. By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
What the Whitney Houston biopic reveals. By Brandon Tensley / CNN
Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction. By Jessica Pressman / The Conversation
The ‘Black Panther’ Sequel That Never Was. By Reggie Ugwu / NYT
