Tarell Alvin McCarney’s Broadway debbut,, “Choir Boy,” is a tender coming of age story about a queer Black boy at a prestigious boarding school.
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Musicians Come Clean on How They Live, Create, and Thrive While Sober
Chris Heath at GQ interviews nine sober musicians on thriving creatively.
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Theatre of Wokeness
Are we having a surface-level reckoning?
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Land Not Theirs
Reckoning with a religious upbringing means confronting religion’s role in oppressing women and people of color.
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A Childhood in Cars
How one young man cut against the grain of American masculinity and freed himself from car culture.
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Memory and the Lost Cause
An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
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‘It Happened to My Father the Way It Happened’: The Truth About Green Book
At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.
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How One Alabama Sherriff Worked Openly to Oppress People of Color
Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.
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Building Parks on Antiquities Sites Is Not OK
How the Arizona State Parks and Trails Director got fired for violating the Arizona Antiquities Act.