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World
Biden Marks Landmark Desegregation Anniversary as Black Support Slips
President Biden commemorated Brown v. Board of Education during one of a series of events over the next several days…
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Magazine
Charles Gaines, By the Numbers
The artist on his new work at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Alabama, the development of his practice and…
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Arts
Black Satire Is Having Its Hollywood Moment, but Something Is Missing
Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But…
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Magazine
What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility an institution assumes once it exhibits an artist’s work.
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Arts
Review: ‘Black Twitter’ Looks at Who Gave the Platform Its Voice
Hulu’s docuseries on a social-media subculture doubles as a serious snapshot of recent history.
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Business
How the High Cost of Borrowing May Skew the Presidential Race
Kimberly Jolasun, a 32-year-old entrepreneur in Atlanta, has never voted for the Republican candidate for the presidency. That may be…
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Arts
These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail
THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…
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Arts
Mickalene Thomas Takes Los Angeles
The Broad Museum kicks off a touring exhibition of the artist’s work over the last 20 years.
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Politics
What if O.J.’s Trial Happened Now?
Among the signature images of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend was the contrasting…
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Arts
Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway
Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…