Culture
REVIEW: 5 times ‘Nappily Ever After’ proved a Black woman’s struggle is real AF – Cortney Wills / The Grio
“I Certainly Didn’t Think of Myself as Asian” – Isaac Chotiner / Slate
A Man Says His DNA Test Proves He’s Black, and He’s Suing – Sarah Zhang / The Atlantic
The Majestic, Rule-Breaking ‘Hale County’ Questions How We Observe Black Bodies – Natalia Winkelman / Daily Beast
Quincy Jones Has Accomplished So Much That Even Netflix’s New Doc About Him Can’t Capture It All – Jack Hamilton / Slate
Just Behind the Beat – A perfectly timed, well-tuned chronicle of the past, present, and future of jazz – Carl Wilson / Slate
What it Was Like Inside a Nike Call Center After the Colin Kaepernick Ad Dropped – Matt Saincome / Rolling Stone
Chronicling the Virtuosity and Struggles of 1970s Soul and Funk Musicians – Maurice Berger / NYT
Why Are Black People Still Punished for Their Hair? Ria Tabacco Mar / NYT
LeBron James’ The Shop Is an Unfiltered Glimpse Into the Black Experience in Present-Day America – Derreck Johnson / Slate
‘America to Me’ shows why all the black kids sit together in the cafeteria – Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Asian-Americans Need More Movies, Even Mediocre Ones – Viet Thanh Nguyen / NYT
Aretha Franklin—Musical Genius, Truth Teller, Freedom Fighter – Farah Jasmine Griffin / The Nation
Aretha Franklin Was the Defining Voice of the 20th Century – Jack Hamilton / Slate
Till Victory Is Won: The Staying Power Of ‘Lift Every Voice And Sing’ – Claudette Lindsay-Habermann / NPR
Crazy Rich Asians: 5 things to know about the effervescent rom-com – Alex Abad-Santos / Vox
What The Source Taught Me – Lawrence Ware / NYT
“BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white supremacy – Rachel Leah / Salon
The historic blackness of Tyler Mitchell and Beyoncé’s Vogue cover – Andre’ Leon Talley / Wash Post
With BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee Sounds the Alarm About America’s Past and Present – David Sims / The Atlantic
I wore a ‘Caucasians’ shirt to expose the hypocrisy of racist logos – USA Today
Inside the World of Racist Science Fiction – Ian Allen / NYT
From Duke Ellington to Public Enemy: Images of Hip-Hop and Its Cultural Roots – David Gonzalez / NYT
In ‘Blindspotting,’ Daveed Diggs wrestles with gentrification and race in Oakland, California – Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
‘Sorry to Bother You’ Review: Welcome to the WTF Satire of the Summer – Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
“Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a huge toll” – Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon
