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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.
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It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes
Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are one of the most powerful and stealthy engines of…
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Rev. Cecil Murray, Leader Amid Los Angeles Riots, Dies at 94
He used his church, First African Methodist Episcopal, as a base to address the social ills that confronted the city’s…
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Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Settles the Score With Haters — and With History
Beyoncé released a genre-bending country album, “Cowboy Carter,” last week. After listening to it in all the requisite settings —…
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Hollywood’s New Fantasy: A Magical, Colorblind Past
Films and TV shows keep reimagining history as a multiracial dream world. Is that really a step forward?
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On London Stages, Uplifting Tales of Black Masculinity
“For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy” and “Red Pitch” offer generous portrayals of…
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‘Freaknik’ Documentary Invites Viewers to Black College Spring Break
A new Hulu documentary delves into the legendary Atlanta event and surfaces relics of 1980s and ’90s culture that were…
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Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature’s ‘Black Box’
In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their…
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Five Takeaways From Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Essay on the ‘Colorblindness’ Trap
How a 50-year campaign has undermined the progress of the civil rights movement.
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Trump Courts Black Voters Even as He Traffics in Stereotypes
The former president traffics in stereotypes about Black Americans, yet he is counting on them, and aggressively courting them, in…