Editor’s Pick

“In 2014, 24 women joined a dating show under the premise that Prince Harry was their prize. He wasn’t.”

“How do you tell the world you are grieving? In my case, it was a year-long Twitter thread about finding the things that made me feel better.”

‘Sun Ra says, “the darkness. Nobody made that. It just happens. Light and all that—someone made that; it’s written that they did. But nobody made the darkness. My music is about dark tradition. Dark tradition means a lot more than black tradition.” On the other, Sun Ra named himself for the sun itself, that roiling […]

Lawyer Anwar al-Bunni is on an ongoing hunt for Syrian war criminals exiled in Europe ‘to send Assad’s regime a message: “Justice is coming.”‘

“He’s shot her like this: her black dress black as the scrim behind her so that, but for her face, she is in fact part of that darkness, emerging from it as from the depths of memory.”

“She was in pursuit of what all black girls were supposed to be born with—a jovial, ironclad self-esteem, a sense of rhythm, and a witchy finesse with jojoba and coconut oils. She was in pursuit of that inalienable right to say whether or not someone was, in fact, down.”

“To stop hate, we have to understand it.”