Barry Jenkins’s adaptation of the 1974 James Baldwin novel homes in on the familial tenderness that buoys the youthful protagonists amid devastatingly common injustices.
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Barry Jenkins and Kahlil Joseph Reimagine Roy DeCarava’s Admiring Vision of Harlem | Hyperallergic
Director Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and video artist Kahlil Joseph’s “Fly Paper” transmute the aesthetics and storytelling of photographer Roy DeCarava’s 1950s portraits of Harlem.
View MoreBlack Girl Magic Indeed: Letitia Wright is Crowned 2018’s Queen of the Box Office | The Root
Letitia Wright did the damn thing this year.
View MoreWatch Night Service in the Black Church in America: 150 Years After the Emancipation Proclamation | Huffpost
“Watch Night Service” in the Black Church in America symbolizes the historical fact, that on the night of Dec. 31, 1862 during the Civil War, free and freed blacks living in the Union States gathered at churches and/or other safe spaces, while thousands of their enslaved black sisters and brothers stood, knelt and prayed on plantations and other slave holding sites in America — waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation into law.
View More(2014) Testimony of a Cleareyed Witness | The New York Times
Color and class are still the great divides in American culture, and few artists have surveyed them as subtly and incisively as Carrie Mae Weems
View MoreMichelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, Models of Power for Black Women | The New York Times
Michelle Obama and Stacey Abrams, and what they revealed in 2018 about how power is gained and thwarted.
View More3 Films We’re Excited to See Developed From The Black List | Colorlines
The annual list compiles entertainment executives’ favorite unproduced screenplays of the year.
View MoreRichard Overton, World War II veteran and America’s oldest man, dies at 112 | The Washington Post
Richard Overton was in his mid-30s when he began serving in World War II. It was perhaps the most important thing he did with his life, but it was far from the last.
View More21-Year-Old From Viral Howard Homecoming Photo Lands Cover Of Elle Magazine | Blavity
After getting attention at Howard’s homecoming, an emerging model graces the pages of Elle…
View MoreKwanzaa 101: A Beginners Guide To Having A Happy Kwanzaa | Blavity
Created in 1966 by Dr. Mulana Karenga, Kwanzaa is a holiday focused on connecting African-Americans with their heritage and culture. A celebration with genesis in the Black Panther and freedom movement era, Karenga’s goal for the pan-African holiday is to, “give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and their history.”
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