What the Color Blue Reveals About Black Life
I remembered this experience vividly as I read Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My ...
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Orson Welles’ All-Black Version of ‘Macbeth’ Excited Theatergoers Nationwide
The sort of throngs you’d expect for a generational prize fight—all of them hoping to get a ticket to the most sensational ...
Alice Coltrane's ashram — and her 'Black radical imagination' — lives on at the Hammer Museum
Presenting never-before-seen ephemera and the works of 19 contemporary Black artists, the Hammer Museum pays homage to the life and impact of musician and spiritual leader Alice Coltrane.
Bigger than basketball: Duke, filmmakers honor CB Claiborne, school’s first Black player
C.B. Claiborne’s Duke basketball story is worth remembering, and preserving. After a film screening highlighting the Blue ...
Tracing Afrobeats’ Yoruba Roots: ‘Wizkid Now Was Sunny Adé Then’
A new documentary, The Odyssey, will comb through a century of traditional Nigerian music to arrive at the present ...
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Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad — Spanish for “Friendship” ...