Culture
Racist humor empowers white supremacy, Raúl Pérez argues in book, “The Souls of White Jokes.” By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
Film Producer Janet Yang Elected First Asian American President Of The Academy. By Jake Coyle / HuffPost
Mary Alice Should Have Been A Household Name. But She Wasn’t A Part Of White Hollywood. By Law Ware / HuffPost
Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future. By Stacy Y. China / NYT
In beguiling ‘American Prophet,’ Frederick Douglass lets freedom sing. By Peter Marks / Wash Post
Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Duke Ellington. By Giovanni Russonello and Marcus J. Moore / NYT
On Beyonce’s ‘Renaissance,’ Freedom is in the Flesh. By Mankaprr Conteh / Rolling Stone
Jerrod Carmichael, Bo Burnham comedy specials are going introspective. By Hannah Yasharoff / USA Today
The cast of ‘P-Valley’ on the new season and going to the darker side of the Dirty South. By Kelundra Smith / Andscape
Duke Ellington Deserves the 1965 Pulitzer Prize. By John McWhorter / NYT
Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced as editor-in-chief of the new Oxford Dictionary of African American English. By Claretta Bellamy / NBC News
Give “Nope” director Jordan Peele credit for his impact on Black horror. By Noah Berlatsky/ NBC News
‘Black Panther 2’: Watch the Spectacular, Moving First Trailer. By Ethan Millman / Rolling Stone
How a 23-Year-Old Phenom Named Kingfish Became the Future of the Blues. By Carlo Rotella / Wash Post
The 1990s Denzel Mystery That Should’ve Launched a Franchise. By Dan Kois / Slate
Poet Sonia Sanchez received the Edward MacDowell Medal. By Hillel Italie / PBS
Wendell Pierce on the role of a lifetime in ‘Death of a Salesman.’ By Robin Rose Parker / Wash Post
Abbott Elementary’s Success Is Just the Beginning for Quinta Brunson. By Rebecca Ford / Vanity Fair
