Culture
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‘The New Black Vanguard’ heralds a change in fashion photography
Antwaun Sargent reveals a shift in how black people see and present themselves in the world
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Can artificial intelligence help us understand racial bias in sports?
Computer scientists apply artificial intelligence and ‘big data’ analytics to demonstrate bias in how sports commentators discuss athletes
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Drake reflects on a decade of friction in ‘Rap Radar’ interview
Drake was involved in the decade’s two biggest beefs. What he takes from them is vastly different.
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10 black podcasts we loved from 2019
The podcasts you’ve got to hear
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Before Drake vs. Draymond, there was LeBron and Soulja Boy
A hilarious 2008 feud started with DeShawn Stevenson and ended with Jay-Z
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‘Blacksonian’ chief Lonnie Bunch named first African American secretary of the Smithsonian
The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture brings a new look to the 173-year-old institution
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For Beyoncé’s Homecoming scholars, their scholarships were lifesavers
Her commitment and love for HBCUs comes from growing up around top bands
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Beyoncé’s ‘Homecoming’ is an illuminating two-way street
The superstar uplifts HBCU culture — and her own journeys ‘home’
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R. Kelly, Michael Jackson — are they being ‘lynched’?
Bringing up lynchings in these cases is profiting off the very real horrors inflicted on black people