Culture
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
The Unsettling Message of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah.’ By Elizabeth Hinton / The Atlantic
‘Minari’ Movie Review: A Gentle Immigrant Drama Set in U.S. By Alison Willmore / New York Magazine
Black dancer calls out racism in ‘elitist’ European ballet world. By Adela Suliman / NBC News
The bright light shining on America’s best Black artists has a fascinating backstory. By By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Mary Wilson, a founding member of ‘The Supremes,’ has died. By Joe Sutton and Hollie Silverman / CNN
Black music is Black history: Our spirituals. By Denise Oliver Velez / Daily Kos
Amanda Gorman Interviewed by Michelle Obama / Time
How Black history and culture have influenced American cuisine. By Maya Eaglin / NBC News
Author James McBride asks us to peer behind ‘the boarded-up windows of Black America.’ By Betty Winston Bayé / Wash Post
Lack Of Diversity Mars Golden Globe TV Nominations. By Eric Deggans / NPR
Morgan Wallen and country music’s race issue is no surprise. By Lisa Respers France / CNN
Malcolm & Marie movie review & film summary. By Roger Ebert
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive? By Rachel Poser / NYT
Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel reclaims Black identity, pushing the slavery narrative beyond suffering. By Derrick Clifton / NBC News
Blackness, Dehumanized: A Black Feminist Analysis of ‘Bridgerton.’ By Shaun Armstead / AAIHS
Netflix’s ‘Bling Empire’ flaunts Asian 1% privilege amid the Covid pandemic. By Michelle Yang / NBC News
Chris Rock: Truth, therapy and punchlines. By CBS News
Judas and the Black Messiah review – electric Black Panthers drama. By Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian
Shemekia Copeland reigns as the greatest blues singer of her generation. Now she wants to fuse politics with the blues. By Carlo Rotella / Wash Post Magazine
The Fiery Song That Freed Tina Turner. By Jason Heller / The Atlantic
We need more ‘trauma-free Blackness.’ Here’s a start. By John Blake / CNN
The White Tiger on Netflix review: The anti-Slumdog Millionaire. By Alissa Wilkinson / Vox
Junior Mance, jazz pianist whose chords were built on the blues, dies at 92. By Matt Schudel / Wash Post
For the Culture magazine celebrates Black women in food. Finally. By Aaron Hutcherson / Wash Post
Black Music Has a New Home in Nashville. By Margaret Renkl / NYT
