Culture February 19, 2021 The Unsettling Message of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’ By Elizabeth Hinton / The Atlantic
Culture February 19, 2021 ‘Minari’ Movie Review: A Gentle Immigrant Drama Set in U.S. By Alison Willmore / New York Magazine
Culture February 19, 2021 Black dancer calls out racism in ‘elitist’ European ballet world. By Adela Suliman / NBC News
Culture February 15, 2021 The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory. By By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Culture February 15, 2021 Mary Wilson, a founding member of ‘The Supremes,’ has died. By Joe Sutton and Hollie Silverman / CNN
Culture February 12, 2021 Black music is Black history: Our spirituals. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Culture February 12, 2021 How Black history and culture have influenced American cuisine. By Maya Eaglin / NBC News
Culture February 12, 2021 Author James McBride asks us to peer behind ‘the boarded-up windows of Black America.’ By Betty Winston Bayé / Wash Post
Culture February 12, 2021 Morgan Wallen and country music’s race issue is no surprise. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
Culture, Past Voices February 9, 2021 He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? By Rachel Poser / NYT
Culture February 9, 2021 Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel reclaims Black identity, pushing the slavery narrative beyond suffering. By Derrick Clifton / NBC News
Culture February 9, 2021 Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton.’ By Shaun Armstead / AAIHS
Culture February 9, 2021 Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire’ flaunts Asian 1% privilege amid the Covid pandemic. By Michelle Yang / NBC News
Culture February 9, 2021 Judas and the Black Messiah review – electric Black Panthers drama. By Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian
Culture February 9, 2021 Shemekia Copeland reigns as the greatest blues singer of her generation. Now she wants to fuse politics with the blues. By Carlo Rotella / Wash Post Magazine