Culture
The reckoning over representation: Black hollywood speaks out, but is the industry listening? By Variety / NBC News
Jennifer Hudson Is Note-Perfect As Aretha Franklin In First ‘Respect’ Trailer. By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
The Theater Where Ella Fitzgerald Got Her Start. By Reggie Nadelson / NYT Magazine
Spike Lee’s ‘Rodney King’ to stream on Netflix. By Marianne Garvey / CNN
He’s 100, a renowned jazz musician and a survivor of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
Da 5 Bloods: The Secret Meaning in Marvin Gaye’s Haunting Song. By Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair
Dave Chappelle’s “8:46” special meditates on black America and George Floyd. By Aja Romano / Vox
Spike Lee on his role as an artist in tumultuous times: ‘I’m built for this.’ By Ann Hornaday / Wash Post
How the country music industry is responding to George Floyd’s death — and facing its own painful truths. By Emily Yahr / Wash Post
Bonnie Pointer, Co-Founder Of Pointer Sisters, Dead At 69. By Andrew Dalton / HuffPost
Spike Lee’s “3 Brothers” short film brings together George Floyd and Radio Raheem — watch. By Zack Sharf / Salon
The New Russell Simmons Documentary Grapples With the Price Black Women Pay When They Accuse Their Own. By Jamilah King / Mother Jones
Gabrielle Union on diversity in Hollywood: ‘There are so many blind spots.’ By Andrew Nusca / Fortune
Jimmy Cobb, The Pulse Of ‘Kind Of Blue,’ Dies At 91. By Natalie Weiner / NPR
Art Never Dies. It outlives the contentious political veneer that we cast over everything. By Sonny Rollins / NYT
Louis Delsarte, a Muralist of the Black Experience, Dies at 75. By Steven Kurutz / NYT
As Stevie Wonder Turns 70, A Look At How He Wrote The Soundtrack For A Fragile America. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Jill vs. Erykah. Babyface vs. Teddy: Inside the Instagram ‘battles’ that are now must-watch quarantine viewing. By Helena Andrews-Dyer / Wash Post
Little Richard dead at 87: The rock and roll king who scared — and changed — America.By Jeff Slate / NBC News
‘The Eddy’: How Damien Chazelle and André Holland captured the bustling Paris jazz scene. By Sonio Rao / Wash Post
Laura Harrier on Rewriting Hollywood in Netflix’s ‘Hollywood.’ By Candice Frederick / NYT
Ida B. Wells Awarded Posthumous Pulitzer Prize For Lynching Investigations. By Sanjana Karanth / HuffPost
Nikole Hannah-Jones Wins Pulitzer Prize for 1619 Project. By Jeff Barrus / Pulitzer Center
Colson Whitehead wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Nickel Boys. By Constance Grady / Vox
Netflix’s Michelle Obama Documentary Will Take Peek At Her Post-White House Life. By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
