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‘The Color Purple’ Tips Its Hat to Classic Black Musicals

The new movie has so many references to Hollywood gems like “Stormy Weather” and early jazz shorts, it can be…

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Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and…

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Federal Judge Approves Georgia’s New Voting Maps

The judge found that the Georgia legislature had complied with orders to allow Black voters an equal opportunity to elect…

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A Holiday Celebration Inspired by Old New York

The Old Stone Trade founder Melissa Ventosa Martin and the One Of designer Patricia Voto channeled the Gilded Age to…

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The Virtues of Inauthenticity

My partner and I were eager to take in the ancient Greek sculptures at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that…

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The Great Experiment That Is ‘The Color Purple’

A new adaptation shows how rich Alice Walker’s novel is and how the source material can lend itself to unconventional…

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In South Carolina, Democrats See a Test of Biden’s Appeal to Black Voters

The president’s campaign is putting money and staff into South Carolina ahead of its primary in an effort to energize…

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Why Claudine Gay Should Go

Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, should resign. I don’t love thinking so and hoped we would not reach this tipping point…

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Now, Black Figures Have a Name, a Frame and a Show

A vital American Folk Art Museum show reckons with centuries of erasure by uncovering historical records of the unnamed Black…

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Excerpts From Dr. Claudine Gay’s Work

Here are five examples of work by President Claudine Gay of Harvard that have been spotlighted by critics who have…

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