Culture

There’s a deeper message behind that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad

Chance the Rapper Announces Arts and Literature Fund For Chicago Schools

Beyoncé Could Be The Next Big Name To Join ‘The Lion King’ Remake

BET’s Longtime President, Stephen Hill, Stepping Down

Law School To Offer Class On HBO’s ‘The Wire’

Barry Jenkins Set To Direct Amazon Series Based On ‘Underground Railroad’ Novel

Formerly Incarcerated Artists Could Win a $20K Fellowship

Chance the Rapper is the Hero Chicago Students Deserve

11-Year-Old Prepares To Conduct A 75-Piece Orchestra

Jay Z Will Produce A Documentary Series About Trayvon Martin

This Cover of TIME Came and Went, but it has a Message for Our Movement

Why I’m tired of white gay men telling queer stories

ICYMI: Check Out This Video Of Celebs Who Want You To Know James Baldwin’s Legacy

Daniel Kaluuya Responds To Criticism of Black British Actors Taking Work In The U.S.

Artist Makeda Lewis on Luck And Her Now Iconic Afro-Feminist Coloring Book

The Kalief Browder Docuseries Builds a Clear Case for Prison Abolition

How our unhealthy understandings of accountability promote a race to the bottom

Amare Stoudemire Says He’d Avoid A Gay Teammate

The Scariest Part of ‘Get Out’ Was The Trueness To Life

Netflix Drops Trailer To ‘Burning Sands’, Movie About Hazing in Black Fraternities

Producer Jahaan Sweet Speaks Black Art and the Joke that Helped Him Graduate from Juilliard

W.E.B. Du Bois Hand Drew Infographics about Post-Reconstruction Life

New England Patriots Player, Martellus Bennett, Won’t Visit White House With Team

Roxane Gay Pulls Book After Publisher Gives Deal To “Alt-Right” Leader

Black Actors Make History With Oscar Nominations

Brooke Obie Gives Us Black Girl Magic in ‘Book of Addis: Cradled Embers’

Octavia Spencer Buys Out ‘Hidden Figures’ Screening For Low-Income Families

Issa Rae and Jussie Smollett Are Teaming Up To Produce A New Web Series

Steve Harvey Meets With Donald Trump, Internet (Including DL Hughley) Reacts Accordingly

Understanding the ‘cultural not remedial’ aspect of Black Vernacular English

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