Culture
Chris Rock Mocks Will Smith in Live Netflix Special, Addressing Oscars Slap. By Julia Jacobs / NYT
From the street to the stage: Hip-hop is reinventing itself with the help of symphony orchestras. By Christopher A. Daniel / Andscape
I’ve spent 5 years researching the heroic life of Black musician Graham Jackson, but teaching his story could be illegal under laws in Florida and North Dakota. David Cason / The Conversation
Octavia Butler’s American parables are a realistic sci-fi vision of life after apocalypse. By Tom Deignan / NCR
NAACP Image Awards 2023: Here Are All The Winners. By Kimberly Richards / HuffPost
15 Gangsta Things About Bumpy Johnson, The Real Godfather of Harlem. By Noah A. McGee / The Root
Marvin Gaye’s iconic NBA All-Star Game national anthem: ‘He turned that thing into his own.’ David Aldridge and Marcus Thompson II / The Atheletic
Black Music Sunday: On President’s Day, Lester Young will always be ‘The Prez’ of jazz. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
In Majority-Black New Orleans, Chefs Are Rewriting ‘Whitewashed’ History. By Brett Anderson / Wash Post
Louis Vuitton taps Pharrell Williams as next men’s creative director. By Anne Branigin / Wash Post
Black Music (Super Bowl) Sunday: Prince was awesome in the rain, but don’t forget these Black bands. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
‘Till’ actress Danielle Deadwyler attributes her Oscars snub to ‘misogynoir.’ By Harmeet Kaur / CNN
A Poem by Cortney Lamar Charleston: ‘It’s Important I Remember That Nina Simone Wrote ‘Mississippi Godam’ in Less Than One Hour. By Courtney Lamar Charleston / The Atlantic
Viola Davis Just Became An EGOT Winner. By Taryn Finley / HuffPost
Beyoncé Makes History at a Star-Powered Grammy Ceremony. By Ben Sisario / NYT
How We Construct and Reconstruct Race. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT
Poetry finally has its own Grammy category – mostly thanks to J. Ivy, nominee. By Mandalit Del Barco / NPR
For Black women, hair is tied up with culture, identity and much more. By Alesia I. Redding / South Bend Tribune
Samara Joy Is Bringing 21st Century Flair to Classic Jazz Standards. By Thania Garcia / Variety
Michael Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson to play him in biopic. By Kelsey Ables / Wash Post
Ojeda Penn, 79, Atlanta jazz musician, dies in accident.
He Quit Singing Because of Body Shaming. Now He’s Making a Comeback. By Javier C. Hernandez / NYT
The Sound of Sonny. By Ben Ratliff / NYT
The Poetry of a Prison Uprising. By Elias Rodriques / Dissent Magazine
2023 Oscar noms exclude acclaimed films by and about Black people. By Michelle Garcia / NBC News
You People’: A master class in race relations, delivered as comedy. By Michael O’Sullivan / Wash Post
