Culture
How Black history and culture have influenced American cuisine. By Maya Eaglin / NBC News
Author James McBride asks us to peer behind ‘the boarded-up windows of Black America.’ By Betty Winston Bayé / Wash Post
Lack Of Diversity Mars Golden Globe TV Nominations. By Eric Deggans / NPR
Morgan Wallen and country music’s race issue is no surprise. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
Malcolm & Marie movie review & film summary. By Roger Ebert
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? By Rachel Poser / NYT
Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel reclaims Black identity, pushing the slavery narrative beyond suffering. By Derrick Clifton / NBC News
Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton.’ By Shaun Armstead / AAIHS
Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire’ flaunts Asian 1% privilege amid the Covid pandemic. By Michelle Yang / NBC News
Chris Rock: Truth, therapy and punchlines. By CBS News
Judas and the Black Messiah review – electric Black Panthers drama. By Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian
Shemekia Copeland reigns as the greatest blues singer of her generation. Now she wants to fuse politics with the blues. By Carlo Rotella / Wash Post Magazine
The Fiery Song That Freed Tina Turner. By Jason Heller / The Atlantic
We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start. By John Blake / CNN
The White Tiger on Netflix review: The anti-Slumdog Millionaire. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
Junior Mance, jazz pianist whose chords were built on the blues, dies at 92. By Matt Schudel / Wash Post
For the Culture magazine celebrates Black women in food. Finally. By Aaron Hutcherson / Wash Post
Black Music Has a New Home in Nashville. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
Caste Does Not Explain Race. By Charisse Burden-Stelly / Boston Review
By Any Means Necessary: The FBI vs. Civil Rights. By Ed Rampell / The Progressive
Rep. Clyburn wants to make ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ a national hymn. By Randi Richardson / NBC News
Cicely Tyson Has a Secret About Living Life to the Fullest. By David Marchese / NYT
I Spent 35 Years Trying To Convince The World (And Myself) That I’m White. By Leah Olson / HuffPost
Crisis Behind the All-White Best Children’s Album Category. By Samantha Hissong / Rolling Stone
Rooting out racism in children’s books. Lindsey Perez Huber / The Conversation
Take Beautiful Pictures of Our People.’ By Siddhartha Mitter / NYT
