With HBOs recent announcement of the controversial upcoming drama, Confederate, and Will Packer‘s upcoming Amazon series, Black America, there’s no doubt that the genre of speculative fiction is experiencing a major resurgence.
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Ailey Extension Dance Classes: Release your inner dancer | New York Amsterdam News
Have you ever sat in the audience at an Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performance during the magnificent dance company’s summer and winter seasons and thought wistfully, “I would love to try to do at least some of that!”
View MoreAfter Obama’s 2008 Win, Indiana GOP Added Early Voting in White Suburb, Cut It in Indianapolis | Slate
In 2008, Barack Obama squeaked out an unexpected win in Indiana thanks in part to his huge margin of victory in Marion County, which has a large population of black Democrats.
View MoreDiscounting Black Children: How the Racially Skewed Economics of Adoption Devalue Black Lives | Atlanta Black Star
It’s a menu unlike any other. Or, paradoxically, it’s a menu too much like any other, where economics determines the value of the listed commodities.
View MoreHow black grassroots politics led to the 14th Amendment and black citizenship | The Conversation
As the nation seeks to understand the recent violence, and as the Black Lives Matter Movement claims the mantle of black leadership, now is an important time to remember an earlier period of race-based violence and civil rights struggles.
View MoreAmerica Has a Human Trafficking Problem and Homeless Youths Are the Most Vulnerable | Atlanta Black Star
Portraits of 22 different women lined the walls of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in June. The temporary photography installation featured a diverse group of women, holding onto a symbol of who they are and who they aspire to be.
View MoreIs It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines | The New York Times
NEW HAVEN — “I never listen to music passively,” the musician and composer Tyshawn Sorey said recently, nestled in an easy chair at his home studio here.
View MoreJames Baldwin Quotes That Are Powerful Enough to Stand True Today | Essence
Celebrate Baldwin’s birthday with quotes that are still relatable in today’s society.
View MoreThe Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World | Hyperallergic
We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.
View MoreThe Samuel L. Jackson Method | The New York Times
He builds downtime into a schedule of near-constant work. Call his agent if you have a problem with that.
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