Black
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Arts
‘The Color Purple’ Review: Still Here
There’s a lot to like about this musical film version of Alice Walker’s novel, but the story remains slippery to…
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Books
Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before
A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of…
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Arts
‘American Fiction’ Review: The Pen Is Mighty, the Pressures Mightier
The first film from the director Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright as an author who becomes a pseudonymous success writing…
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US
As Biden Struggles With Black Men, Allies Gather at White House
Aides of the president met with influential Black male Democrats to discuss how to shore up his standing with a…
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Arts
Norman Lear Reshaped How America Saw Black Families
“Good Times,” “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son” brought a wave of Black characters to TV, even as the shows…
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Food
For Her Next Round, Toni Tipton-Martin Orders Up a Book of Cocktails
The author of “The Jemima Code” has distilled 200 years of African American drinking know-how into her new “Juke Joints,…
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Arts
Mellon Foundation Doubles Funding for U.S. Monuments, Pledging a Total $500 Million
The philanthropy will add to its ongoing initiative to tell diverse stories with new monuments in public spaces over the…
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Arts
How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets
The poets’ collective, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of…
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Books
A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War
In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of…
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News
Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science
This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.