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Baritone Will Liverman stars in X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Zenith Richards/Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera An opera about Malcolm X will open Friday night at New York's Metropolitan Opera — 37 years after it first premiered. The opera's creative team says although nearly four decades have passed since X first came to the stage, its messages feel more relevant than ever. […]
Left: James Spooner, co-creator of Afropunk Festival and co-editor of Black Punk Now. Right: Black Punk Now cover art. More than a decade since she last dabbled in the Black punk scene, host B.A. Parker heads to a show in Brooklyn and is reminded of something she read recently: "What is more liberating than a mosh pit full of smiling Black faces?" The quote comes from James Spooner, the co-creator […]
Josephine Baker (left), Mollie Moon (right) and the newly crowned Miss Beaux Arts Ball, 1960. E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts/Detroit Public Library/Amistad imprint of Harper Collins When we think of the Civil Rights Movement, opulent parties are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But it turns out, they were a big part of the fight for racial justice — especially the […]
Foundry workers at an undisclosed location begin the long process of disassembling and melting down the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The statue was a focal point of deadly riots in Charlottesville, Va. in 2017. Eze Amos/For Swords into Plowshares Communities across the American South have removed Confederate monuments from public spaces in recent years. Some have gone to museums, others are locked away in storage. But one […]
Credit: Photo: Grace Widyatmadja Before Nile Rodgers & CHIC set the Tiny Desk off, the icon established a sort of mission statement for the group's sound: "If we can funk in this, you know we can funk." They surely can. In stints since 1972, CHIC has assured its position as funk ambassadors — a position its members clearly relish — and no space is resistant to their grooves. When Rodgers […]
Writer, actor and comedian Zainab Johnson is one of 13 siblings who grew up in a Muslim family in Harlem. She jokes about all of it in her new Prime Video special Hijabs Off. Matthew Misisco/Zainab Johnson Comedian, writer and actor Zainab Johnson is known for telling stories about dating, being a Black Muslim in America and her very big family. "You know in a house with 15 people, a […]
Richard Roundtree at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Updated October 25, 2023 at 11:00 AM ET Richard Roundtree, who died Tuesday at 81 in Los Angeles, was easily one of the coolest actors ever. When he was cast as the Black private eye John Shaft in the 1971 film of the same name, the former college football player and model was relatively unknown. But […]
Credit: Photo: Estefania Mitre Jordan Ward showed up to NPR headquarters radiating with a warm energy that felt familiar, like linking up with your favorite cousins at the cookout. After all, the immense amount of creativity and synergy displayed by Ward and his bandmates during this Tiny Desk performance is indicative of pure fellowship. The St. Louis-bred singer-songwriter started his professional career as a backup dancer for stars like Justin […]
Kayleigh Butler, a hair stylist, stands for a portrait at her studio in Atlanta on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. "Relaxers have taken an extreme decline ... as we became more knowledgeable about the effects of the relaxer on your hair and what it can do to your hair," says Butler, who remembers getting relaxers when she was 5 years old. Kenya Hunter/AP The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a […]
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