A complicated racial anxiety rests at the heart of American entertainment.
Danielle Jackson
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Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination
“The New York Times reviewed thousands of pages of court and other public records involving workers who said they had suffered miscarriages, gone into premature labor or, in one case, had a stillborn baby after their employers rejected their pleas for assistance.”
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Reading with Kiese Laymon’s “Heavy”
“Heavy” confronts generations of Black art.
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How Carrie Mae Weems Rewrote the Rules of Image-Making
Accompanied by photographs taken by Mickalene Thomas, The New York Times’ T Magazine profiles Carrie Mae Weems for its 2018 Greats issue.
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Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force
For T Magazine’s 2018 Greats issue, Ayana Mathis interviews vocalist Solange Knowles as she prepares to release a new album.
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Fat Girl Cries Herself to Sleep At Night: An Illustrated Essay
In an illustrated essay, Natalie Lima describes how weird and hilarious living in a body can be.
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My Fathers and Hip-Hop Taught Me About Self-Care as A Black Man
“Embracing mortality, in this sense, is to prepare a way for my future children. If this cancer is hereditary, is it not also my responsibility to do everything within my humanly power to ensure, my children nor I, have to suffer?”
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Filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ Adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”
“I think when I found film,” he said, “I found a way — I still hide a bit — but a way to not hide as much. I felt like I could put these things into the work because it’s the movie. It’s not me.”
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Things Fall Apart Turns 60
A brief history of Chinua Achebe’s debut novel “Things Fall Apart,” which was published 60 years ago.
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Lady Gaga, Celeb Profiles, and the Third Remake of “A Star is Born”
Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga and dives deep into the mystique and mythology of “A Star is Born.”