Culture
Beyoncé says an experience where she ‘did not feel welcomed’ spurred her to make ‘Cowboy Carter’ country album. By Alli Rosenbloom / CNN
Is Kevin Hart funny? By Travis M. Andrews / Wash Post
On the Chisholm Trail: Dramatizing the Story of the First Black Woman Presidential Candidate. By Ed Rampell / The Progressive
Stormy Daniels doc is a portrait of a woman destroyed by Donald Trump. By Jada Yuan / Wash Post
How Quinta Brunson Hacked the Sitcom. By Molly Fischer / The New Yorker
When Pavarotti and Tracy Chapman stunned the world in a soulful operatic duet. By Kyle Macdonald / Classicfm
“I tried on the American dream”: CNN analyst Natasha Alford on finding success without assimilating. By D. Watkins / Salon
NAACP Image Awards 2024: Here Are All The Winners. By Kimberley Richards / HuffPost
‘American Society of Magical Negroes’ cast and director say not to judge the film by its trailer. By Ronda Racha Penrice / NBC News
Caribbean musician Sherwin Gardner’s viral hit song surpasses 1 billion TikTok views. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
A Bloody Retelling of ‘Huckleberry Finn.’ By Tyler Austin Harper / The Atlantic
‘Opera Has Never Been White’: The Invisible Legacy of Black Women in Classical Music. By Mariel Padilla / The 19th and Capital B
There Is Something Putin Can’t Control. By Joy Neumeyer / NYT
CBS is developing its first Black daytime soap opera in 35 years. By Jonathan Franklin / NPR
Black Music Sunday: Celebrating Muslim jazz musicians as Ramadan begins. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
How Black artists helped make country music what it is today. By Santi Elijah Holley / National Geographic
UCLA Hollywood report shows audiences want diverse films. By Andrew Limbong / NPR
The blank spaces in Relisha Rudd’s story are the most horrifying. By Colbert L. King / Wash Post
Texas insists on discriminating against Black hair. By Karen Attiah / Wash Post
Black historical interpreters fight to keep history alive as some work to erase it. By Donna M. Owens / NBC News
The Essential James Baldwin. By Robert Jones Jr. / NYT
Jeffrey Wright is finally in the Oscar hunt. He’s ready. By Ann Hornaday / Wash Post
Hustlers, grifters and greed: How Jam Master Jay met his tragic end. By Rich Schapiro / NBC News
Beyoncé brings new audience to country music and highlights the genre’s Black roots. By Amna Nawaz, Mary Fecteau and Layla Quran / PBS
At Dance Theater of Harlem, a New Lease on History and Ballet. by Gia Kourias / NYT
Ray Francis, Celebrating Blackness. By Blake Gopnik / NYT
