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Black Brilliance: Alayo Akinkugbe Reimagines Blackness in Art History
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Black Brilliance: Alayo Akinkugbe Reimagines Blackness in Art History

CNN  

Alayo Akinkugbe, a curator and art historian, reimagines Blackness in art history by highlighting the stories of Black figures who have often been marginalized. She focuses on the role of Black figures in paintings, shifting the focus from the red-headed bride to the Black child in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'The Beloved.' Akinkugbe's work underscores the importance of recognizing and celebrating …

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Kamala Harris is tapping into the Black Joy movement
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Kamala Harris is tapping into the Black Joy movement

CNN  

It’s been called “Kamalamania,” “Kamalmentum,” and “Kamelot.” Others dismiss it as “irrational exuberance,” or a political sugar high led by a “ding dong.” In the five weeks since Kamala Harris upended the 2024 presidential race, the commentariat has used all kinds of phrases to describe Democrats’ euphoria about her sudden White House run. But there is another electoral force propelling …

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Opinion: Denigrating Drake, and Kamala Harris, as ‘Not Like Us’
4 months, 1 week ago

Opinion: Denigrating Drake, and Kamala Harris, as ‘Not Like Us’

LA Times  

Arguments that question the racial identity of the hip-hop artist and the presidential candidate deny the complexity of Blackness. On the same day that former President Trump claimed before a national gathering of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black …

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Who Donald Trump Was Really Speaking to With His Vile Comments on Kamala Harris’ Blackness
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Who Donald Trump Was Really Speaking to With His Vile Comments on Kamala Harris’ Blackness

Slate  

At the National Association of Black Journalists convention on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump stoked widespread ire when he questioned the racial makeup of his presumed 2024 presidential campaign opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump’s going to “try to de-authenticate her as Black,” Alim said, “trying to paint her as someone using Blackness to gain political favor.” And indeed, by …

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I Confronted A White Man In My Gym. What I Realized In That Moment Left Me Shaken.
1 year, 2 months ago

I Confronted A White Man In My Gym. What I Realized In That Moment Left Me Shaken.

Huff Post  

"I'm drinking a $7 Brooklyn iced tea," the author writes. “Too bad it’s not for us people, right?” I laughed along with her, trying to hide my embarrassment that I was excited to try the food. When someone is arrested for a particularly bad crime, pretty much every Black person I know, regardless of their background, has the same response: …

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Films On Iconic Black Models Are Flying Under The Radar
1 year, 3 months ago

Films On Iconic Black Models Are Flying Under The Radar

Huff Post  

From left, models Bethann Hardison, Donyale Luna, Hardison and Naomi Campbell. I mean, normally.” I’m about 45 minutes into a video call with Bethann Hardison, the pioneering model turned agent and activist, about the very nature of documentaries on Black models when she poses that question. She’s just a fascinating person beyond how beautiful she was.” Like many people today, …

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Essay: The myth of French blackness
1 year, 4 months ago

Essay: The myth of French blackness

Hindustan Times  

Sometimes in the 1950’s, the French philosopher Roland Barthes, waiting in a barbershop in Paris, picked up a copy of the magazine Paris-Match. The philosopher saw what the image was trying to say: “that France is a great Empire, that all her sons, without any colour discrimination, faithfully serve under her flag, and that there is no better answer to …

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Whitewashing slavery in US schools will teach students anti-Blackness
1 year, 4 months ago

Whitewashing slavery in US schools will teach students anti-Blackness

Al Jazeera  

At a press event in Utah on July 21, GOP presidential contender and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attempted to find the silver lining of American chattel slavery. DeSantis made these utterings while defending the Florida State Board of Education’s new standards for teaching African American history in public schools, which downplay and whitewash the enslavement of Africans in the Americas. …

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Dreaming Whilst Black: a satirical comedy so lifelike it practically wrote itself
1 year, 5 months ago

Dreaming Whilst Black: a satirical comedy so lifelike it practically wrote itself

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Sometimes, we’re really in the twilight zone.” Salmon is speaking to me with castmate Dani …

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Addressing Queer Erasure In Black History
1 year, 5 months ago

Addressing Queer Erasure In Black History

Huff Post  

My approach to Black history is spiritual. “When we start talking about Black Trans people, and we’re like, ‘Well, back in my day, we didn’t have none of that.’ Actually, you did.” Let’s be real: We collectively fail by telling Black history that’s not nearly queer enough. Poe’s upbringing in a pan-Africanist home exposed him to the limitations of existing …

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The Anti-LGBTQ Hysteria Is Showing America’s True Identity
1 year, 6 months ago

The Anti-LGBTQ Hysteria Is Showing America’s True Identity

Huff Post  

A couple of months ago, I attended a rousing concert of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles at a theater in downtown Glendale. “Like Blackness, gayness and 'trans-ness' are now seen by the right, especially the Christian right, as a fundamental threat to the American way of life.” The legal movement has been dizzying, especially in Florida, where governor …

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The 75 best movies by Black directors—and where they’re streaming.
1 year, 9 months ago

The 75 best movies by Black directors—and where they’re streaming.

Slate  

Seven years ago—when #OscarsSoWhite was a hot topic and Obama was still president—Slate published the Black Film Canon, a list of 50 of the best and most culturally significant films by Black directors. “Dash insisted on making a migration film that would rely on the vibrancy of images, the richness of Gullah cultural rituals and its African rooted ancestral signification, …

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My Black ancestors were erased from my family’s memory. But I found them
1 year, 10 months ago

My Black ancestors were erased from my family’s memory. But I found them

LA Times  

Two years ago, at my mother’s house in San Diego, I asked my 86-year-old Puerto Rican grandmother, who lives there, if she could show me photos of her parents. “Don’t you think if he were still alive he might identify as Black?” “He’d identify as Puerto Rican,” she says. The rise of the “other” is giving birth to a new …

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Black Gen Z Stars That Should Be On Your Radar
1 year, 10 months ago

Black Gen Z Stars That Should Be On Your Radar

Huff Post  

By Ruth Etiesit Samuel February 7, 2023 “Young, gifted and Black. “To be young, gifted and Black / Open your heart to what I mean.” Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Photo:Getty Images Marsai Martin Marsai Martin starred in ABC’s “Black-ish,” produced the comedy film “Little,” and much more. Illustration:Jianan Liu/HuffPost Photo:Getty Images Lyric Ross Lyric Ross starred as Deja on NBC’s “This Is …

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Chef Toya Boudy’s “Cooking for the Culture” is a celebration of Blackness through place and plates
1 year, 10 months ago

Chef Toya Boudy’s “Cooking for the Culture” is a celebration of Blackness through place and plates

Salon  

"Cooking for the Culture: Recipes and Stories from the Streets of New Orleans to the Table" is not your average cookbook. That's why you see a lot of people, and you see, I said recently, I said, "You don't hear anyone saying laissez les bons temps rouler, unless they're a tour guide that's from another state, giving a tour and …

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Emani Corcran: Being Vegan Doesn't Change Your Experience Of Blackness
1 year, 10 months ago

Emani Corcran: Being Vegan Doesn't Change Your Experience Of Blackness

Huff Post  

Illustration: Benjamin Currie/HuffPost; Photo: Courtesy of Emani Corcran, Getty "Changing the way you eat will not change your experience of Blackness or the connection to culture and food," Emani Corcran said. Emani Corcran is the creator behind BLK+Vegan on Instagram, Tiktok and YouTube and the author of the upcoming cookbook, “BLK + Vegan.” In this edition of Voices In Food, …

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I critiqued Dave Chappelle and his fans questioned my Blackness
2 years, 1 month ago

I critiqued Dave Chappelle and his fans questioned my Blackness

NPR  

I critiqued Dave Chappelle and his fans questioned my Blackness Enlarge this image toggle caption NBC/Will Heath/NBC NBC/Will Heath/NBC It may have been the GIF of a chattering raccoon. Chappelle dances around the issue in his monologue, noting how many Jewish people there are working in Hollywood and then saying, "you might go out to Hollywood, you might start connecting …

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Nikyatu Jusu’s ‘Nanny’ contains a ‘hard lesson.’ She’s learned one about Hollywood too
2 years, 1 month ago

Nikyatu Jusu’s ‘Nanny’ contains a ‘hard lesson.’ She’s learned one about Hollywood too

LA Times  

“Nanny” filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu in the Los Angeles Times photo studio at RBC House during the Toronto International Film Festival in September. “How do you use your rage?” Both reminder and affirmation, this impactful question comes from writer, director and scholar Nikyatu Jusu’s feature debut, “Nanny,” in theaters Nov. 23 and on Prime Video Dec. 16. There is a warmth …

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We can celebrate diversity without erasing Blackness
2 years, 2 months ago

We can celebrate diversity without erasing Blackness

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy At this …

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Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed
2 years, 2 months ago

Who counts as Black in voting maps? Some GOP state officials want that narrowed

NPR  

Who counts as Black in voting maps? Voting rights cases focused on Black voters have used a broad definition of "Black" Since a 2003 ruling by the Supreme Court, that definition of "Black" has included every person who identifies as Black on census forms — including people who check off the boxes for Black and any other racial or ethnic …

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Tell your own story. L.A.’s Black Image Center is here to help you
2 years, 6 months ago

Tell your own story. L.A.’s Black Image Center is here to help you

LA Times  

There is a specific power that comes from telling your own story. “So much of what Black Image Center is about is taking what we had or what we wish we had and making that an organic thing that we can offer to other people,” says Mansour. I don’t really consider myself a working photographer as much as a hobbyist, …

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Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Politics of Black Hair
2 years, 8 months ago

Ketanji Brown Jackson and the Politics of Black Hair

Slate  

On Thursday, Ketanji Brown Jackson became the first Black woman to be confirmed to the Supreme Court. “Natural black hair,” as Tiya Miles, the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, wrote for the New York Times, in 2018, about the recent resurgence of natural Black hairstyles, “is again a sign …

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Qualified For The Job. So The GOP Went After Her Blackness.
2 years, 8 months ago

Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Qualified For The Job. So The GOP Went After Her Blackness.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Before the hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court began, Republicans made a pinky-promise. It got worse when Sen. Ted Cruz used a children’s book to accuse Jackson of peddling critical race theory during her time on the board of a private school in Washington, D.C. “Do you agree. Critical race theory, both …

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I’m Biracial, But Rejected My Blackness For Years. Here’s Why I Stopped Passing For White.
2 years, 9 months ago

I’m Biracial, But Rejected My Blackness For Years. Here’s Why I Stopped Passing For White.

Huff Post  

The author with her mother. My mother, a Black Fijian woman who proudly embraced her natural ’fro, was waiting for me at the bus stop. Yoga, meditation, and daily walks worked short term, but after a few weeks “on the wagon” I would tip back into burnout. I am finally giving myself permission to release responsibility whenever someone doesn’t understand …

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