The ‘Moonlight’ director is making his return to the big screen with an adaptation of James Baldwin’s 1974 novel.
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The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation | The New York Times
THE NEW NEGRO The Life of Alain Locke By Jeffrey C. Stewart 932 pp. Oxford University Press. $39.95. Alain LeRoy Locke’s drive to revolutionize black culture was fueled in no small part by his sense of self-importance. “When a man has something to be conceited over,” he wrote, “I call it self-respect.” Unlike many of […]
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Kamala Harris Examines ‘The Truths We Hold’ in New Book | Colorlines
The California Senator will detail her upbringing and core beliefs as they relate to her political work.
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Duke University Instructor Jaki Shelton Green Becomes 1st African American Woman to be Named North Carolina’s Poet Laureate | Good Black News
“Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state’s diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki’s appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina’s rich literary history.”
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Roxane Gay: ‘No one is guaranteed love or affection’ | The Guardian
The author of Bad Feminist and Hunger has strong words for ‘incels’, harassers in publishing and diet gurus
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The Time Travels of Annie Sesstry
One summer day, Annie, her sister Emma, and her cousin Joshua slip through a portal and travel back in time to post-Civil War Georgia. They meet Fox and discover a secret about family time travelers through the generations, learning that history isn’t so dull after all.
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Black Lives Matter and the Intrepid Lives That Preceded It | The New York Times
“Ours is a neighborhood designed to be transient, not a place where roots are meant to take hold.”
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‘Breaking’ Presents: Juliana ‘Jewels’ Smith, Educator-Turned-Comic Writer | Colorlines
The Bay Area resident, inspired by how comics connected with her community college students, developed “(H)afrocentric” to address structural and economic racism in a funny and accessible way.
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Bringing the World of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Briefly, to Stage | The New York Times
Mr. Coates and Ms. Forbes will reconvene in Harlem as she adapts and directs the world premiere stage adaptation of “Between the World and Me” at the Apollo Theater.
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The Film Adaptation of “Native Son” Is Coming, and It’ll Probably Win an Oscar. | Garage
Brooklyn-based contemporary artist Rashid Johnson will bring a screenplay by Suzan-Lori Parks to life, with the help of “Moonlight” star Ashton Sanders.
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