Culture
15 Caribbean music genres everyone should know and their origins. By Jahaura Michelle / The Grio
30 years after ‘Reasonable Doubt,’ Jay-Z’s career embodies hip-hop’s biggest contradictions. By Jabari M. Evans / The Conversation
Black Podcasting Is Having A Moment… That’s Becoming A Trend. By Frank Racioppi / Forbes
Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, And What Black Artists Sacrificed To Make Pro-Black Art. By Zack Linly / Newsone
Bob Johnson Is Back at BET, but Black Ownership Is Not. By Lacy J / Baller Alert
The Beautiful, Messy Legacy of Maurice White. By Shanelle Genai / The Root
Peabo Bryson, singer behind ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and more dies at 75. By Angeline Jane Bernabe / ABC News
The Revolutionary Roots That Inspired Tupac Shakur. By Reveal / Mother Jones
How I’m Wrestling With Miles Davis’s Complicated Legacy as Artist—and Abuser. By Jimmy Briggs / Vanity Fair
The Last of the Jazz Titans. By David A. Graham / The Atlantic
The Deep Spirituality of Earth, Wind & Fire Explored in a New HBO Documentary by Questlove. By Lori Dorn / Laughing Squid
Byron Allen Breaks Silence on Replacing Stephen Colbert — And Why the Date Matters. By Erin Maxwell / TV Insider
The new Helen of Troy is Black — and that’s upsetting racists. By CK Smith / Salon
‘Michael’ Becomes Second Highest-Grossing Biopic of All Time, Beating Out ‘Elvis.’ By Charlotte Phillipp / People
How Netflix Cashes In on the Comedy Culture Wars. By Ben Schwartz / The Nation
Josephine Baker was the blueprint—her legacy still echoes through today’s biggest Black women stars. By Kay Wicker / The Grio
Motown’s Black women songwriters and producers were the invisible architects behind the pop music juggernaut. By Margena A. Christian / The Conversation
Why Wynton Marsalis thinks jazz is the perfect metaphor for democracy. By Jeffrey Brown / PBS
Black Celebs Who Slayed the 2026 Met Gala. By Capital B Staff
Black Prom Isn’t ‘Doing Too Much,’ It’s One Of Our Most Beautiful Traditions. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
The Cost Of Dying While Black: Inside A Southern Funeral Home Where Tradition, Poverty, And Profit Collide. By Jodi Ham / Newsone
How Toni Morrison blurred the lines between being an editor and a writer. By Danielle Amir Jackson / The Guardian
Black Girls, Hair, and the Cost of Beauty. By Ronald J. Sheehy, Editor / On Race in America
Controversies and Production Issues Around ‘Michael,’ the Jackson Biopic, Explained. By Brooks Barnes / NYT
The Temptations’ Otis Williams: ‘Our Motown contracts were like slavery.’ Bu Mick Brown / The Telegraph
History: Sade, Luther Vandross, Wu-Tang Clan, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte among 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees. By Brandon Caldwell / The Grio
