Culture
Beyoncé Breaks Record For Most Grammy Wins By A Female Artist. By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Steven Yeun Is The First Asian American Nominated For Best Actor Oscar. By Marina Fang / HuffPost
Genre-busting musician Michael Kiwanuka on setting himself apart – CBS News
How Can Blackness Construct America? By Michael Kimmelman /NYT
Spike Lee Predicts the Future. By Kara Swisher / NYT
Harry Breaks Free From the Racial Contract—and Pays the Price. By Kali Holloway / The Nation
Imbolo Mbue’s ‘How Beautiful We Were’ Exposes the Human Cost of Capital. By Omar El-Akkad / NYT
Only Oprah had the empathy and interview skills to take on the damaging British media – and win. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Why white supremacists and QAnon enthusiasts are obsessed – but very wrong – about the Byzantine Empire. By Roland Betancourt / The Conversation
My Mother Found the Dr. Seuss Book. By Michael Harriot / The Atlantic
“Coming 2 America” takes the crown, delivering a sequel worthy of & less patriarchal than the first. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
How ‘Insecure’ Star Issa Rae Is Changing Television: ‘I Just Wanted a Balance.’ By Melissa Leon / The Daily Beast
‘Judas’ Is the Latest Political Movie to Punt on Politics. By Maya Phillips / NYT
No wedge issue too stupid or racist for Republicans, as Dr. Seuss flap shows. By Laura Clawson / Daily Kos
Netflix’s ‘I Got a Story to Tell’ documents the story of Biggie Smalls’ most tragic friendship. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Reckonings, pain and joy: ABC’s ambitious “Soul of a Nation” explores all of it for all Americans. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Chloe Zhao Makes History As First Asian Woman To Win Best Director Golden Globe. By Cole Delbyck / HuffPost
Teaching Students A New Black History. By Anya Kamenetz / NPR
Golden Globes facing criticism for lack of diversity. By Joe Fryer / Today
‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Movie Review: Streaming on Hulu. By K. Austin Collins / Rolling Stone
Curtis Mayfield and ‘we people who are darker than blue.’ By Denise Oliver Velez / DailyKos
Magical Negroes can’t exist without a Mister Charlie or Miss Ann. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary Tales in Unearthed 2005 Interview. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Black Americans left a lasting mark on Paris. Modern creatives are walking in their footsteps today. By Priscilla Lalisse-Jespersen / Wash Post
Billie Holiday’s Story Depends on Who’s Telling It. By Robert Ho / NYT
Where is the love?: Seeking intimacy in Josephine Baker’s films. By Terri Simone Francis / Salon
Obsessed with Duke Ellington, one man is determined to illuminate the jazz composer’s stunning output. By Eddie Dean / Wash Post
Why Idris Elba Chose Comedy to Tell His Most Personal Story. By Salamishah Tillet / NYT
A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now. By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Trump made an arts commission all White, all male and almost entirely mediocre. By Philip Kennicott / Wash Post
