Culture

Actor Jonathan Majors avoids jail time, sentenced to counseling for assaulting ex-girlfriend

The actor faced up to a year behind bars

Dexter Scott King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies of cancer at 62

Doris Duke Foundation announces major increase in cash prizes to dance, jazz and theater artists

Tap dancer Ayodele Casel, trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah among 10th anniversary class of winners

Fred Blankenship serves up a dose of joy for our morning timelines

Videos by the Atlanta news anchor are a testament to the power of affirmation and old-school dance moves

Using the ritual of food to remember those we’ve lost

Holiday recipes allow us to look back and see our ancestors standing in the gap

What a ride it’s been for spelling bee champion Zaila Avant-garde

She traveled cross-country, has been on all the morning shows, to Walt Disney World and in parades

Interracial couple representation in pop culture isn’t as progressive as we think

The optics, while a sign of change, don’t point to any change in the status quo

Former women’s basketball player pays homage to her sport and Black women with new documentary

Melanie Page hopes ‘Can’t Retire’ allows basketball players and Black women to be heard as humans and respected athletes

Kevin Young wants to keep everyday struggles and triumphs at the center of the Blacksonian

The poet, editor and museum director will move from New York’s Schomburg Center to the National Museum of African American History and Culture