Culture
How Miss Universe’s historic win helped shift the status quo for beauty standards. By Michelle Cohan / CNN
With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals. By Sebastian Smee / Wash Post
Louis Gossett Jr. Is An Optimist. To Survive Hollywood, He’s Had To Be. By Matthew Jacobs / HuffPost
Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr. on James Baldwin’s faith in America. By Sean Illing / Vox
‘Watchmen’ leads all Emmy nominees with 26. By Lynn Elber / PBS
Watch Beyonce ‘Black Is King’ Online: Disney+ Stream Free, Runtime. By Tim Chan / Rollling Stone
Viola Davis: “My Entire Life Has Been a Protest.” By Sonia Saraiya / Vanity Fair
Chance the Rapper’s Art and Activism, and the Perils of Prison Reform. By David Remnick / The New Yorker Radio Hour
In New York’s Harlem, small businesses reel from coronavirus toll on Black communities. By Reuters / NBC News
Netflix loses motion to dismiss Mo’Nique’s race and gender bias lawsuit. By Gwen Aviles and Diana Dasrath / NBC News
Black Artists on How to Change Classical Music. By Zachary Wolfe and Joshua Barone / NYT
Revisiting “A Time for Burning” and the Spiritual Crisis of Racism. By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
The Revolutionary Life of Paul Robeson: Scholar Gerald Horne on the Great Antifascist Singer, Artist and Rebel. By Jeremy Scahell / The Intercept Podcast
When Marian Anderson Defied the Nazis. By Kira Thurman / The New Yorker
Tina Turner comes out of retirement with a remix of ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ By Marianne Garvey / CNN
Kennedy Center to commission anti-racism works, expand programs for black artists and audiences. By Peggy McGlone / Wash Post
“Do You Think You’re Not Involved?” The Racial Reckoning of “Blood at the Root.” By Casey Cep / The New Yorker
The reckoning over representation: Black hollywood speaks out, but is the industry listening? By Variety / NBC News
Jennifer Hudson Is Note-Perfect As Aretha Franklin In First ‘Respect’ Trailer. By Curtis M. Wong / HuffPost
The Theater Where Ella Fitzgerald Got Her Start. By Reggie Nadelson / NYT Magazine
Spike Lee’s ‘Rodney King’ to stream on Netflix. By Marianne Garvey / CNN
He’s 100, a renowned jazz musician and a survivor of Tulsa’s 1921 race massacre. By DeNeen L. Brown / Wash Post
How Richard Pryor Changed the Way Comedy Sees Police Brutality. By Jason Zinoman / NYT
Da 5 Bloods: The Secret Meaning in Marvin Gaye’s Haunting Song. By Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair
Dave Chappelle’s “8:46” special meditates on black America and George Floyd. By Aja Romano / Vox
Spike Lee on his role as an artist in tumultuous times: ‘I’m built for this.’ By Ann Hornaday / Wash Post
How the country music industry is responding to George Floyd’s death — and facing its own painful truths. By Emily Yahr / Wash Post
Bonnie Pointer, Co-Founder Of Pointer Sisters, Dead At 69. By Andrew Dalton / HuffPost
Spike Lee’s “3 Brothers” short film brings together George Floyd and Radio Raheem — watch. By Zack Sharf / Salon
The New Russell Simmons Documentary Grapples With the Price Black Women Pay When They Accuse Their Own. By Jamilah King / Mother Jones
