Culture
Tina Turner Is Having the Time of Her Life. By Amanda Hess / NYT
Dismissed for too long, black chefs are seizing their moment. By Nick Charles / NBC News
It’s About Time!’ Betye Saar’s Long Climb to the Summit. By Holland Cotter / NYT
The Voice That Shattered Glass. How Ella Fitzgerald’s cassette campaign fueled a late-career renaissance. By Michelle Mercer / NPR
Mary Frances Whitfield Bears Witness. By Alexandra Marvar / The Nation
Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On Live’ Set for Reissue. By Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Dave Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones Fights for the Rights of the Already-Powerful. By Inkoo Kang / Slate
Marian Anderson: The Most Modest Trailblazer. By Anastasia Tsioulcas / NPR
50 years ago, Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock anthem expressed the hopes and fears of a nation. By Mark Clague / The Conversation
“South Side” and “Sherman’s Showcase” give rarely-seen perspectives on black American life. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
‘Luce’ Review: Race, Privilege and Every Parent’s Nightmare. By Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
Barack Obama Drops Summer Reading List: These Books Are ‘Transcendent, All of Them.’ By Christina Zhao / Newsweek
The Radical Blackness of Ebony Magazine. By Brent Staples / NYT
‘Brian Banks’ Review: Falsely Accused, and Fighting Back, By Jeannette Catsoulis / NYT
Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire is having a ??? summer. By Christopher A. Daniel / The Undefeated
Beyoncé’s ‘Brown Skin Girl’ is controversial because of its inclusionary vision of female beauty. By Mikki Kendall / NBC News
With Its Nuanced Portrayal of Asian American Life, ‘The Farewell’ Shines. By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim / The Nation
16 Black Chefs Changing Food in America. By John Eligon and Julia Moskin / NYT
New York is second state to ban discrimination based on natural hairstyles. By Janelle Griffith / NBC News
Beyoncé will lift your spirit with new song from ‘The Lion King’ soundtrack. By Sondra Gonzalez / CNN
Author Michael Eric Dyson’s New Book Will Focus on Jay-Z’s Cultural Impact: ‘This Was the Perfect Time’ By Daryl Nelson / AtlBlackStar
Ignore the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlash and racist social media trolls. By Todd “Stereo” Williams / The Undefeated
When is a hairstyle not just a hairstyle? When it’s a pretext for discrimination. By Stephanie Griffith / ThinkProgress
Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii. By Moises Velasquez-Manoff / NYT
We may never resolve our conflicted feelings about Michael Jackson. By Maria Puente / USA Today
“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music. By Mark Anthony Neal / AAIHS
