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On the eve of her debut album’s launch, experimental R&B vocalist Kelela talks to the Fader about meeting the challenges of working as a black woman artist in the largely white male-dominated recording industry with self-acceptance.

For W, Diane Solway tells the story of how LA’s Underground Museum, a part-exhibition, part-salon space in the Arlington Heights neighborhood created by painter Noah Davis came to be.

For Esquire, Robert P. Baird talks to Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the recently appointed poetry editor at the New Yorker about the future of poetry.

The singer Sade takes her time between records, shuns promotions and the internet, but remains an icon of cool after more than 30 years in the recording industry.

Professional athletes from Compton, California talk about what Kendrick Lamar’s critically acclaimed second album “good kid, m.A.A.d city” meant in their lives five years after its debut.

In the most recent of a more than 20-year long catalogue of R. Kelly’s alleged abuses against women, a former girlfriend speaks out speaks out about the terrifying years she spent with the singer.