Rare photographs tucked away in HBCU archives are being preserved and widely shared with the world for the first time
Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), most of which were founded d…
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Backtalker by Kimberlé Crenshaw review – the audacity of hope ⊕⊕
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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…
3 months ago
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone review – August Wilson play makes uneven return to Broadway ⊕
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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…
4 months ago
Act Black: posters of Black Americans on stage and screen – in pictures ⊕
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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…
Soul to Soul review – joyous 1971 concert film captures Black American stars’ emotional return to Ghana ⊕⊕
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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, …
5 months ago
Black History Month was never ‘given’ to Black people, thus, it can never be taken from us ⊖
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…
12 months ago
‘What if everyone didn’t die?’ The queer, Pulitzer-winning, happy-ending Hamlet ○
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…
15 months ago
‘I love humans – it gives me the courage to approach them’: the disarming work of Mao Ishikawa ○
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 …
17 months ago
From racist bans to lion-tamer fighters: the wild history of Britain’s unsung Black boxing superstars ○
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…
1 years ago
Why the Black American origins of mac and cheese are so hotly debated ○
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…