Culture
In Hulu’s ‘Woke,’ Waking Up to Racism Is a Lot Like Going Crazy. By Mike Hale / NYT
Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? By Giovanni Russonello / NYT
Sade Announces Six-Album Vinyl Set ‘This Far’ For October Release. By Claire Shaffer / Rolling Stone
T’Challa forever: We lost Chadwick Boseman but not the symbolism of what he represents. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Spike Lee Updates Michael Jackson’s ‘They Don’t Care About Us’ Video. By Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Here’s What Critics Are Saying About Tenet. By Marissa Martinelli / Slate
“A Change Is Gonna Come” Has a Long History in Politics. By Dan Adler / Vanity Fair
“Lovecraft Country” star: “It’s a shame that men and women are being accosted and lynched” today. By D. Watkins / Salon
Toots Hibbert: A Reggae King Rises Again. By Jason Fine / Rolling Stone
Strange Fruit’: The Timely Return of an Anti-Lynching Protest Song. By David Browne / Rolling Stone
100 Years Ago, ‘Crazy Blues’ Sparked a Revolution for Black Women Fans. By Daphne A. Brooks / NYT
How Miss Universe’s historic win helped shift the status quo for beauty standards. By Michelle Cohan / CNN
With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals. By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Louis Gossett Jr. Is An Optimist. To Survive Hollywood, He’s Had To Be. By Matthew Jacobs / HuffPost
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. on James Baldwin’s faith in America. By Sean Illing / Vox
‘Watchmen’ leads all Emmy nominees with 26. By Lynn Elber / PBS
Watch Beyonce ‘Black Is King’ Online: Disney+ Stream Free, Runtime. By Tim Chan / Rollling Stone
Viola Davis: “My Entire Life Has Been a Protest.” By Sonia Saraiya / Vanity Fair
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform. By David Remnick / The New Yorker Radio Hour
In New York’s Harlem, small businesses reel from coronavirus toll on Black communities. By Reuters / NBC News
Netflix loses motion to dismiss Mo’Nique’s race and gender bias lawsuit. By Gwen Aviles and Diana Dasrath / NBC News
Black Artists on How to Change Classical Music. By Zachary Wolfe and Joshua Barone / NYT
Revisiting “A Time for Burning” and the Spiritual Crisis of Racism. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Antifascist Singer, Artist and Rebel. By Jeremy Scahell / The Intercept Podcast
When Marian Anderson Defied the Nazis. By Kira Thurman / The New Yorker
Tina Turner comes out of retirement with a remix of ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ By Marianne Garvey / CNN
