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The inspiring life of the Black American activist and legal scholar who changed the way the world things about race
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s memoir describes a life shadowed by Jim Crow segregation and ra…
46 days ago
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Ethel Barrymore theatre, New York
Debbie Allen’s revival of the 1984 drama boasts a compelling cast, led by Taraji P Henson and Cedric the Entertainer, but too many notes are off
Earlier this year, Vio…
2 months ago
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A new exhibition at New York’s Poster House celebrates the work of Black performers on stage and screen from the 1880s to the 1940s. Many of these posters are the only surviving proof of certain show…
3 months ago
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Restored documentary records a historic independence day show in Accra, with electrifying performances from Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and more
This exuberant, distinctively high-minded documentary, …
The question of who owns and authorizes the month holds particular relevance amid attacks on Black history in the US
There is a myth that persists about Black History Month that can be heard in the co…
10 months ago
James Ijames was told Shakespeare wasn’t for the likes of him. Yet his Hamlet revamp electrified Broadway and scooped up Tony nominations. As Fat Ham hits the UK, he talks violence, vengeance, strong…
13 months ago
For five decades the Japanese photographer has captured the internal lives of a host of unlikely subjects, from dockers to Black GIs. Now a new show celebrates an artist dedicated to documenting the …
15 months ago
A Thousand Blows, the knockout new drama from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, puts Victorian-era boxer Hezekiah Moscow in the spotlight. But it doesn’t even begin to do justice to the astonishi…
17 months ago
In an era punctuated with persistent loss, our culinary rituals are a scrumptious bridge
It stood on my kitchen bookshelf, Sylvia’s Family Soul Food Cookbook: From Hemingway, South Carolina, to Harlem…
One of the foremost poets of the Black arts movement died on Monday but continues to inspire her literary children
“We are the culture bearers of planet Earth,” Nikki Giovanni said in 1978 on American…
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