Culture
R&B’s Changing Voice: How Hip-Hop Edged Grittier Singers Out of the Mainstream – Elias Light / Rolling Stone
The new Thurgood ‘Marshall’ movie is a thrilling What-Had-Happened-Was – Kelley L. Carter / The Undefeated
Spike Lee, Jordan Peele Team for ‘Black Klansman’ Thriller – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Dick Gregory, Comedian and Civil Rights Activist, Dead at 84 – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Kendrick Lamar: The Rolling Stone Interview: “The Greatest Rapper Alive” – Brian Hiatt / Rolling Stone
What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Detroit – Aisha Harris / Slate
Whose Streets, Whose Stories : Who gets to make art out of black pain? Two very different new movies show why it matters – Dana Stevens / Slate
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
