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Biden Marks Landmark Desegregation Anniversary as Black Support Slips

President Biden commemorated Brown v. Board of Education during one of a series of events over the next several days…

Health

Charles Gaines, By the Numbers

The artist on his new work at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Alabama, the development of his practice and…

Arts

Black Satire Is Having Its Hollywood Moment, but Something Is Missing

Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But…

Politics

What Are a Museum’s Obligations When It Shows a ‘Problematic’ Artist?

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the responsibility an institution assumes once it exhibits an artist’s work.

Arts

Review: ‘Black Twitter’ Looks at Who Gave the Platform Its Voice

Hulu’s docuseries on a social-media subculture doubles as a serious snapshot of recent history.

Business

How the High Cost of Borrowing May Skew the Presidential Race

Kimberly Jolasun, a 32-year-old entrepreneur in Atlanta, has never voted for the Republican candidate for the presidency. That may be…

Arts

These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail

THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…

Arts

Mickalene Thomas Takes Los Angeles

The Broad Museum kicks off a touring exhibition of the artist’s work over the last 20 years.

World

What if O.J.’s Trial Happened Now?

Among the signature images of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend was the contrasting…

Arts

Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway

Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…

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