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Books
Black Satire Is Having Its Hollywood Moment, but Something Is Missing
Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But…
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World
What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist?
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility an institution assumes once it exhibits an artist’s work.
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Books
Review: ‘Black Twitter’ Looks at Who Gave the Platform Its Voice
Hulu’s docuseries on a social-media subculture doubles as a serious snapshot of recent history.
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Economy
How the High Cost of Borrowing May Skew the Presidential Race
Kimberly Jolasun, a 32-year-old entrepreneur in Atlanta, has never voted for the Republican candidate for the presidency. That may be…
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Books
These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail
THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…
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Books
Mickalene Thomas Takes Los Angeles
The Broad Museum kicks off a touring exhibition of the artist’s work over the last 20 years.
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World
What if O.J.’s Trial Happened Now?
Among the signature images of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend was the contrasting…
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Books
Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway
Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…
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World
Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions, Study Finds
Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white…
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Books
A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey
Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.