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Magazine
Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?
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News
On London Stages, Uplifting Tales of Black Masculinity
“For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy” and “Red Pitch” offer generous portrayals of…
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‘Freaknik’ Documentary Invites Viewers to Black College Spring Break
A new Hulu documentary delves into the legendary Atlanta event and surfaces relics of 1980s and ’90s culture that were…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature’s ‘Black Box’
In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their…
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Magazine
Five Takeaways From Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Essay on the ‘Colorblindness’ Trap
How a 50-year campaign has undermined the progress of the civil rights movement.
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News
Trump Courts Black Voters Even as He Traffics in Stereotypes
The former president traffics in stereotypes about Black Americans, yet he is counting on them, and aggressively courting them, in…
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Easing the Daily Reality of My Strangeness
Like many African American professors, I teach at a predominantly white institution (Wheaton College) and live in the largely white…
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News
Black English Doesn’t Have to Be Just for Black People
Matt Rife is a comic. He’s 28, he’s white and he can be hard to listen to. And that’s because…
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News
Dancing on the Rooftops of New York in a Rediscovered Short Film
OpinionSupported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENTDancing on the Rooftops of New York in a Rediscovered Short Film Feb. 27, 2024, 5:00 a.m.…
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Travel
Why the N.Y. Fire Dept. Canceled Its Black History Month Celebration
A documentary screening about the city’s first Black fire commissioner was scrapped after his family objected to the film’s exclusion…