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‘The Color Purple’ Review: Still Here

There’s a lot to like about this musical film version of Alice Walker’s novel, but the story remains slippery to…

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Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before

A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of…

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‘American Fiction’ Review: The Pen Is Mighty, the Pressures Mightier

The first film from the director Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright as an author who becomes a pseudonymous success writing…

World

As Biden Struggles With Black Men, Allies Gather at White House

Aides of the president met with influential Black male Democrats to discuss how to shore up his standing with a…

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Norman Lear Reshaped How America Saw Black Families

“Good Times,” “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son” brought a wave of Black characters to TV, even as the shows…

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For Her Next Round, Toni Tipton-Martin Orders Up a Book of Cocktails

The author of “The Jemima Code” has distilled 200 years of African American drinking know-how into her new “Juke Joints,…

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Mellon Foundation Doubles Funding for U.S. Monuments, Pledging a Total $500 Million

The philanthropy will add to its ongoing initiative to tell diverse stories with new monuments in public spaces over the…

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How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets

The poets’ collective, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of…

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A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War

In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of…

Science

Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.

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