Culture
Rare, Unreleased Michael Jackson Album Goes Up for Auction – Elias Leight / Rolling Stone
Bob Marley Comes Alive in This Collection of Interviews With the People Who Knew Him Best – Toure / NYT
‘Dear White People’ Is Heading Back To Netflix For Season 2 – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
DWP’’s Antoinette Robertson: Black Women Can Be Woke And Wear A Weave – Zahara Hill / Huff Post
The Radical Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, the First Black Author to Win a Pulitzer Prize – Angela Jackson / Beacon Press via Alternet
The Echoes of America’s “Faithful Slave” Trope in Lola’s Story – Micki Mcelya / The Atlantic
The Case for Black English : John McWhorter celebrates the dialect that has become an American lingua franca – Vinson Cunningham / New Yorker
New York Today: An Ella Fitzgerald Centennial – Alexandra S. Levine / NYT
Prince didn’t let the music industry define him. That’s why he became a legend – Alex Abad-Santos / Vox
Oprah Winfrey on ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ – Salamishah Tillet / NYT
The real story behind the famous Chappelle skit starring Charlie Murphy about Prince’s late-night hoops challenge – Jerry Bembry / The Undefeated
How James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time still lights the way towards equality – Steven W Thrasher / The Guardian
The style of Maya Angelou – Jill Hudson / The Undefeated
Dave Chappelle Reckons With Himself – David Sims / The Atlantic
The Movie ‘Get Out’ Is a Strong Antidote to the Myth of ‘Postracial’ America – Brent Staples / NYT
Wildly Talented Nigerian Artist Made This Drawing Without Any Training Whatsoever – Priscilla Frank / Huff Post
Remembering Chuck Berry – David Hajdu / The Nation
The Haunting Murder of a Jazz Legend in the Making – Nick Schager / The Daily Beast
The racist history of Dr. Seuss and what it means in today’s context – Katie Ishizuka-Stephens / The Conscious Kid
“Get Out” Is the Horror Flick America Needs Right Now – Edwin Rios / Mother Jones
Fleeing anger in America, James Baldwin found solace in 1960s Turkey – Kareem Fahim / Wash Post
ISTANBUL — There is no trace of James Baldwin in the four-story building where he lived for a time, decades ago, on Ebe Hanim street,…
Why Does a White Guy Always Have to Be the Hero? Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, Grace Wilsnon and Karen Hao / Mother Jones
2017 Oscars Predictions: Who Should Win, Who Will Win – Peter Travers / Rolling Stone
The battle lines are drawn: It’s La La Land, a musical fantasy about white lovers in Hollywood, versus Moonlight, a searing drama about black youth…
The first time I discovered I was white – John Blake / CNN
Adele bests Beyoncé and the Grammys reach peak irrelevance – Chris Richards / Wash Post
There’s Halftime. Then There’s ‘Showtime.’ Welcome to the Battle of the Bands – Tamara Best / NYT
