Culture

“Why can’t we just let Black people enjoy something?”

‘MTV Shuga’ is a messy millennial edutainment series educating African youth about sexual health

16 Black actresses protest anti-Blackness in the industry at Cannes Film Festival

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

North Carolina educators are the latest to protest in nationwide “Teacher Revolt”

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

Spike Lee receives standing ovation for “BlacKkKlansman” in triumphant return to Cannes

Masturbation as resistance, because I deserve to cum

Israel kills dozens of Palestinians protesting US Embassy move to Jerusalem

When your mother is your first abuser

Tina Knowles reveals she put her daughters in counseling at an early age

NBA winner Jacqueline Woodson releases excerpt from new book, “Harbor Me”

Janelle Monáe and the road to ‘Dirty Computer’

Black women have been organizing against R. Kelly since long before his #MeToo reckoning

Jordan Peele reveals title of new film, Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke rumored to star

Childish Gambino’s racially charged “This is America” draws criticism, praise

I don’t want as many “chances” to f*ck up as Kanye

Iconic Black men are falling from grace. Good.

Stop misusing “people of color” to erase issues specific to Black people

Chicago-based Assata’s Daughters announces food justice through gardening project

Kendrick Lamar becomes first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize

WATCH: Beyoncé turned Coachella into #Beychella and put on ‘for the culture’

13-year-old #1000BlackGirlBooks creator interviews 11-year-old March for Our Lives advocate about honoring Black girls

NYT report highlights challenges facing Black mothers & babies, and the value of doula support

Q-Tip will teach course on intersections of jazz & hip-hop at NYU this fall

A Black woman transforms conditioned silence into language: How Audre Lorde induced my rebirth

White liberals stay predicting dystopias caused by whiteness—without doing anything about it

Bioethics prof Deleso Alford explains why MLK calling healthcare inequity the most ‘inhumane’ injustice matters today

Facing backlash, Grindr announces plan to stop sharing sensitive user info including HIV status

The stories of our struggles are not for white people to consume in an effort to ‘do better’

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