RICHARD AVEDON, A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, FOUNDER, BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS, NEW YORK CITY, APRIL 8, 1976 FROM ASA TO A. PHILLIP: NOTHING BUT A ‘SIGMA’ MAN BY MARK ANTHONY NEAL...
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"NILE RODGERS' wondrous set spans his massive catalog — songs he wrote for CHIC, songs he wrote with collaborators, songs he wrote for other stars and a surprise song he wrote for a classic...
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MARK ANTHONY NEAL, Author and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University joined FRANCE 24's MARK OWEN to discuss the enduring legacy o...
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'In July 1965, police officer EDWARD NUGENT encountered JOHN WESLEY WILDER, a Black man, outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana. Nugent shot Wilder five times, resulting in his death. Local auth...
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> "This 'femme' becomes more possible to me as a figure for > not just embodiment, but for thought, action, engagement, > connection." 'MACARENA GOMÉZ-BARRIS is Profes...
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How do city and state governments go about creating “ghettos” to sequester their undesirable communities while protecting affluent White spaces? And at whose expense? SHERYLL CASHIN, J.D....
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'On her album, Black Rainbows, CORINNE BAILEY RAE was inspired by the art, books and magazines at the Stony Island Arts Bank, a repository for Black history on Chicago's South Side, created ...
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Left of Black Season 14 has arrived! We are thrilled to debut a fresh season of Dr. Mark Anthony Neal's Webby-nominated web series, produced by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at ...
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In 1988, the world was introduced to the groundbreaking Black rock band, LIVING COLOUR, with their debut record, Vivid, which dominated the charts and was a commercial hit. Made up of lead vo...
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'With help from a sisterhood of musicians, ALLISON RUSSELL, the Canadian singer-songwriter and activist, has triumphed over trauma to become a distinguished figure on the Americana scene. Rus...
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'Wilmington, North Carolina was once home to a thriving middle class Black population. In 1898, the only successful coup d’état in American history put a stop to it. ALEX MANLY was part of...
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'In this conversation with FATIMA SECK, JASMINE NICHOLE COBB discusses her latest monograph, New Growth: The Art and Texture of Black Hair , which reveals the various ways that people of Afr...
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'WAR Founding member LONNIE JORDAN and producer JERRY GOLDSTEIN look back at the making of 1972's The World Is A Ghetto. Jordan says it was original percussionist THOMAS "PAPA DEE" ALLEN who ...
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'The Girl in the Yellow Poncho: A Memoir (Duke UP, 2023) is KRISTAL BRENT ZOOK’s coming-of-age tale about what it means to be biracial in America. Throughout, she grapples with in-betweenn...
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'JASON MORAN talks jazz and plays selections from his latest recording, which borrows from the music of James Reese Europe, the composer and musician who led the HARLEM HELLFIGHTERS regiment ...
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'THE EMANCIPATOR recently brought new and expecting Black and Brown moms into conversation with doulas, birth sisters, midwives, lactation consultants, and doctors to talk about the joys and ...
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'S. A. COSBY's novel ALL THE SINNERS BLEED centers on a Black sheriff in a small Southeast Virginia county. The novel was inspired by his own experiences growing up in the shadow of the Confe...
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'In this masterclass, DR. E. PATRICK JOHNSON traces the origins of what is now codified as the field of Black Queer Studies, beginning in the 18th Century to the present. Johnson argues that ...
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'BRANDON KAZEN-MADDOX is an artist, filmmaker, acrobat and GODA, a grandchild of deaf adults. They are a cofounder of Up Until Now Collective, a non-profit that provides opportunities for dea...
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'JOHN BOYD JR., the founder of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BLACK FARMERS, and THEGRIO's EBONI K. WILLIAMS discuss the state of Black farmers.
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'From the VMFA galleries where his exhibition is on view, internationally renowned artist WHITFIELD LOVELL discusses his familial inspirations and artistic development.'
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'The legendary hip-hop group DE LA SOUL's back catalog is finally available on digital platforms. They look back on their genre-shaping career and remember their bandmate TRUGOY THE DOVE.'
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'In Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place (NYU Press, 2023), author J. T. ROANE shows how working-class Black communities cultivated two interdependent modes...
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"There are whole histories of African American artists wrestling with stereotypical depictions and minstrelsy - and it seemed worthy anyway to me as an artist to consider them as some kind o...
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