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A collage of red beans and rice with a "Welcome to Louisiana" sign, celebrities from New Orleans, and a Haitian flag.

Red Beans and Rice: A Journey from Africa to Haiti to New Orleans

“It was an affirmation of our city,” says New Orleanian food historian Lolis Eric Elie.

by Joseph Lamour via TODAY.com on February 29, 2024

A bedroom decorated with Bob Marley merchandise and the Jamaican flag.

Bob Marley’s ‘Legend’ Is One of the Bestselling Albums Ever. But Does It Tell His Full Story?

After 40 years and more than 25 million copies sold, what story does ‘Legend’ tell us about Bob Marley and the people listening to it?

by Eric Ducker via The Ringer on February 14, 2024

Black and white photo of the outside of a bar, with "CB GB: OMFUG" written on an overhang, and graffiti and posters on the walls and windows

Real Estate Developers Killed NYC’s Vibrant ’70s Music Scene

In the 1970s and early ’80s, NYC’s racially and ethnically diverse working-class neighborhoods nurtured groundbreaking rap, salsa, and punk music.

by Kurt Hollander via Jacobin on February 11, 2024

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti

What 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.

by Leslie M. Alexander via Public Books on January 11, 2024

Surviving a Wretched State

A discussion on the difficulty of keeping faith in a foundationally anti-Black republic.

by Melvin L. Rogers, Neil Roberts via Boston Review on November 15, 2023

Members of the Wu-Tang Clan.

'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)' Turns 30

How the album pays homage to hip-hop's mythical and martial arts origins.

by Marcus Evans via The Conversation on October 31, 2023

Collage of Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet, waving, and smoking, and a picture of his home in Queens.

Louis Armstrong Gets the Last Word on Louis Armstrong

For decades, Americans have argued over the icon’s legacy. But his archives show that he had his own plans.

by Ethan Iverson via The Nation on October 30, 2023

Self-Portrait, by Samuel Joseph Brown Jr., a painting of a Black man looking at a portrait of himself.

A Right to Paint Us Whole

W.E.B. Du Bois’ message to African American artists.

by Melvin L. Rogers via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 4, 2023

August Wilson

The Man Who Transformed American Theater

How August Wilson became one of the country’s most influential playwrights.

by Imani Perry via The Atlantic on August 15, 2023

W.E.B. DuBois

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

On the complex relationship between Black Americans and the Black church.

by Christopher Cameron via Literary Hub on July 27, 2023

Colin Kaepernick at the ACLU SoCal Hosts Annual Bill of Rights Dinner in 2017.

“Black History Is an Absolute Necessity.”

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism.

by Colin Kaepernick, Indigo Olivier via The New Republic on June 19, 2023

Methodist Episcopal Church leaders: five white men and one Black man.

Black Methodists, White Church

How freedmen navigated an unofficially segregated Methodist Episcopal Church.

by Paul William Harris via OUPblog on May 22, 2023

Car interior with Chuck Berry reflected in side view mirror.

An Anthropologist of Filth

On Chuck Berry.

by Ian Penman via Harper's on May 4, 2023

Little Richard holding his arms out at a performance.

What Little Richard Deserved

The new documentary “I Am Everything” explores the gulf between what Richard accomplished and what he got for it.

by Hanif Abdurraqib via The New Yorker on April 26, 2023

Collage of poets and words.

Spoken Like a True Poet

In Joshua Bennett’s history of spoken word, poetry is alive and well thanks to a movement that began in living rooms and bars.

by Stephen Kearse via Poetry Foundation on March 27, 2023

A Lost Operatic Masterpiece Written By White Men For An All-Black Cast Was Found And Restored

Can it be produced without controversy?

by Fredric Dannen via Billboard on March 27, 2023

January 6, 1947 Harlem Globetrotters ad.

The Harlem Globetrotters and the Social Significance of Sports

The Globetrotters have always been far more than just a comic exhibition team, just as sports have always meant much more than escapism.

by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on March 15, 2023

Ngango of Cameroon speaks to a crowd gathered at D.C.'s MLK Memorial.

We’ve Erased Black Immigrants From Our Story, Obscuring a Racist System

We see our history of racism against Black Americans as distinct from our immigration policy, but the two are actually deeply intertwined.

by Carly Goodman via Made By History on February 23, 2023

Graph drawn by W.E.B. Du Bois displaying the income and expenditure of Black American families in Atlanta.

How W.E.B. Du Bois Disrupted America’s Dominance at the World’s Fair

With bar graphs and pie charts, the sociologist and his Atlanta students demonstrated Black excellence in the face of widespread discrimination.

by Susannah Gardiner via Smithsonian on February 1, 2023

Black writers Askia Toure, Lorenzo Thomas, and Ismael Reed seated at an Umbra meeting.

A New Flame for Black Fire

What will be the legacy of the Black Arts Movement? Ishmael Reed reflects on the transformation and growth of Black arts since the 1960s.

by Ishmael Reed via New York Review of Books on January 14, 2023

A hand hovers over a projection of a map of Texas counties sewn on to fabric.

‘Underground Railroad’ Quilt Weaves Black Liberation History

African American fiber artists in San Antonio are challenging revisionist histories through artful storytelling.

by Briana Blueitt via The Texas Observer on December 7, 2022

Dark painting of a storm

Reading the Horizon

Predicting a hurricane in nineteenth-century South Carolina.

by Caroline Grego via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 30, 2022

A blue sign reads "It's Time to Vote Y'all"

'Y'all,' That Most Southern of Southernisms, is Going Mainstream – And It's About Time

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

by David B. Parker via The Conversation on November 29, 2022

Octavia E. Butler.

The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. Butler

The story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.

by E. Alex Jung via Vulture on November 21, 2022

A mural of a Black musician wearing a pinstripe suit, hat, and playing guitar.

The Devil, the Delta, and the City

In search of the mythical blues—and their real urban origins.

by Alan Pell Crawford via Modern Age on October 17, 2022

Alcorn State University's Origional Golden Girls.

Sass And Shimmer: The Dazzling History Of Black Majorettes And Dance Lines

Beginning in the 1960s, young Black majorettes and dance troupes created a fascinating culture. This is the story of how they did it.

by Alecia Taylor, Brooklyn White via Essence on October 10, 2022

Photo of two kids, on African American one white, at a computer ca. early 1980s.

Framing the Computer

Before social media communities formed around shared concerns, interests, politics, and identity, print media connected communities.

by Kelcey Gibbons via Charles Babbage Institute on August 1, 2022

A juke joint on the circuit in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939

Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers

It's where legends like Tina Turner and Ray Charles launched their careers.

by Adrian Miller via Atlas Obscura on June 28, 2022

Booker T. Washington addressing a laughing crowd of African American men in Lakeland, Tennessee, during his campaign promoting African American education. Ca. 1900.

Market Solutions to Ancient Sins

Freedom and prosperity are the most effective cure for the scars of slavery and racism.

by Jason Jewell via Law & Liberty on June 28, 2022

Bittersweet Harvest

The long and brutal journey of the yam.

by Rosa Colón via The Nib on June 27, 2022

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