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Books
Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic
BLACK AND FEMALE: Essays, by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre has been defined by her…
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News
The Black Musical That May Have Inspired Gershwin
I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret.…
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News
Some Black Homeowners Could Have a Clear Way to Challenge Racist Appraisals
Under a new proposal, a homeowner with a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration would have uniform steps to…
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News
‘Hood Century’: How One Man Is Redefining Midcentury Modern Architecture
In 1928, a Black congregation in Cincinnati bought a German Gothic brick structure originally built in 1865 as a synagogue.…
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Magazine
The Fashion Sale of the Century
André Leon Talley amassed piles of Louis Vuitton, Versace, Chanel and Fendi. Now it’s all about to go up for…
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News
The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned
In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr.…
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News
Could Black Flight Change a Model of Integration?
American suburbs have long faced the issue of white families leaving as more residents of color move in. But in…
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News
Selling Houses While Black
About 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers in the United States are Black. Their white peers make almost…
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News
She Made History as a Black Basketball Star. Why Won’t Her College Name Its Arena for Her?
The Walter Sillers Coliseum, a 3,000-seat brick arena, has been the basketball mecca of Delta State University since it was…
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US
Federal Panel Rules South Carolina Congressional District Is Illegal Gerrymander
A three-judge federal panel unanimously ruled that South Carolina’s redrawn First Congressional District illegally removed 62 percent of the Black…