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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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Tommy Orange’s ‘There There’ Sequel Is a Towering Achievement

“Wandering Stars” considers the fallout of colonization and the forced assimilation of Native Americans.

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