Culture
When Latinx People Use the N-Word. By Gary Suarez / NYT
Get ready to love ‘Watchmen,’ the smartest show on television. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
“Tina: The Tina Turner Musical” Comes to Broadway. The New Yorker
Comedians have to walk a tightrope on issues of race. That will make the art form better. By Margaret Cho / NBC News
The X-Rated Godfather of Rap Gets His Due. By Bill Morris / Daily Beast
Black Instagram influencers call out ‘blackfishing’ white women for racial appropriation. By Quinn Gawronski / NBC News
Kanye West and the Cult of Personality. By Shamira Ibrahim / NYT
Parasite Is the Best Movie of the Year So Far. By Dana Stevens / Slate
A Wave of Rap Docs Shows the Genre Has Entered Its Classic Rock Phase. By Jack Hamilton / Slate
What It’s Like to See ‘Slave Play’ as a Black Person. By Aisha Harris / NYT
Online dating, now the most common way for couples to meet, is desegregating America. By Reuben J. Thomas / NBC News
Take a Break From Impeachment. Watch Lil’ Kim’s Career-Spanning Performance at BET Hip Hop Awards. By Emily Zemler / Rolling Stone
Tyler Perry Builds a New Kingdom, With Madea Behind Him. By Cara Buckley / NYT
Diahann Carroll, Groundbreaking Television And Broadway Star, Dead At 84. By Brakkton Booker / NPR
Eddie Murphy is better than ever in Dolemite Is My Name, a bawdy comedy about comedy. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
How Isaac Hayes Changed Soul Music. By Emily Lordi / The New Yorker
Discovering Cuba, an Island of Music. By Shannon Sims / NYT
‘Hustlers’ And The Evolution Of Asian Sex Workers On-Screen. By Tiffany Diane Ts / HuffPost
Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle. By Reggie Ugwu / NYT
Jacqueline Woodson Transformed Children’s Literature. Now She’s Writing for Herself. By Kat Chow / NYT
‘SNL’ firing Shane Gillis isn’t enough. Asian stereotypes still support the white status quo. By Marie Myung-Ok Lee/ NBC News
Trevor Noah Proposes ‘Buyback’ Scheme To Get Blackface Off The Streets. By Josie Harvey / HuffPost
Can a Trumpet Silence a Gun? Terence Blanchard Wants to Try. By Larry Blumenfeld / The Daily Beast
More states are trying to protect black employees who want to wear natural hairstyles at work. By Jena McGregor / Wash Post
William F. Buckley Jr. vs. James Baldwin: A racial showdown on the American dream. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
