Culture
‘O.J.: Made in America’: Inside ESPN’s Definitive Simpson Doc – James Montgomery / Rolling Stone
A (Self) Love Story About Embracing My Natural Hair – Deja L. Jones / Huff Post
The First Badass Female Guitarist: Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Godmother of Rock ‘n’ Roll – Stereo Williams / The Daily Beast
Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? Bethonie Butler / Wash Post
Without Jazz and Blues, There’s No Americana – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
Artist Honors The Black Mothers Who’ve Lost Their Sons To Police Brutality – Priscilla Frank / Huff Post
Lupita Nyong’o had to remind Vogue that white actresses don’t have a monopoly on beauty – Victoria M. Massie / Vox
Beyoncé Unearths Pain and Lets It Flow in ‘Lemonade’ – Wesley Morris / NYT
Prince Recognized That ‘if There Ain’t No Justice, Then There Ain’t No Peace’ – John Nichols / the Nation
Here’s how Miles Davis and Nina Simone were alike and different – Michael J. West / Wash Post
New Natural Hair Magazine Sets A New Standard For Black Women’s Beauty – Lilly Workneh / Huff Post
Why Underground’s Rosalee and Noah Have the Best Black Relationship on TV – Demetria Lucas D’oyley / The Root
Who Owns ‘We Shall Overcome’? All Of Us, A Lawsuit Claims – Elizabeth Blair / NPR
Race, Art, and Essentialism – George Packer / The New Yorker
How Don Cheadle Became Miles Davis – Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast
Nina Simone’s Face – Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic
How #BlackLivesMatter started a musical revolution – Daphne A. Brooks / The Guardian
Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America – Kate Jenkins / Lit Hub
Featured – What Roles Get Black Actors to the Oscars? Aaron Byrd, John Woo and Brandon K. Thorp / NYT Video
Here’s a look at roles performed by black artists who have been nominated for a best actress or best actor Oscar — and what they…
SNL Captures White Peoples Response to Beyonce’s Super Bowl Performance / Video
” The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” Watch the Video here
In Defense of Beyoncé’s Black Panther Tribute at the Super Bowl – Dave Zirin / The Nation
This New Film Will Change the Way You Think About the Black Panthers – Edwin Ross / Mother Jones
Featured – Earth, Wind & Fire’s Musical Reintegration – Roger Thompson / NYT
Jesse Owens, a Film Hero Once Again – Salamishah Tillet / NYT
The soul songs that saved me: Sexuality, the South, sadness, meet Al Green and Aretha – Rashod Ollison / Salon
Sundance Roars for a Black Film, and Fox Searchlight Bids $17 Million – Brooks Barnes / NYT
