Black Women
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Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad names Rhiannon Giddens as new artistic director
The North Carolina musician has made a career exploring the Black origins of the banjo and roots music
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Our patriarchal society doesn’t always tell the stories of Black women
To be Black and a woman means you are always at intersections, exposed to varying levels of discrimination, racism, sexism and prejudice
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I’m a Jew of color. I won’t be quiet about anti-Semitism.
Nick Cannon’s comments and Diddy’s public support for him brought a familiar pang of betrayal, disappointment and anger
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‘P-Valley’ on Starz never lets its viewers forget the labor that goes into stripping
Katori Hall’s drama is a Southern noir tale of striving and familial destruction
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Gina Prince-Bythewood’s ‘The Old Guard’ overflows with new energy
A high-octane action flick leaves us convinced: A new action queen has been crowned
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The day my old identity died
As Pride Month came to an end, some are still meditating on the significance
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Evaluating Black life through a different lens in the midst of COVID-19, civil unrest
How silence in a run group spoke volumes to one Black runner
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I look at Breonna Taylor and see myself
Every day that Louisville fails to arrest those officers, they devalue my life and others like me
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Noname uses ‘Song 33’ to remind us she has her own weight to carry
New song responds to J. Cole using ‘Snow on Tha Bluff’ to tell her how she can help him