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Review: ‘Black Twitter’ Looks at Who Gave the Platform Its Voice

Hulu’s docuseries on a social-media subculture doubles as a serious snapshot of recent history.

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How the High Cost of Borrowing May Skew the Presidential Race

Kimberly Jolasun, a 32-year-old entrepreneur in Atlanta, has never voted for the Republican candidate for the presidency. That may be…

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These 5 Black Ballerinas Blazed Their Own Trail

THE SWANS OF HARLEM: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History, by Karen…

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Mickalene Thomas Takes Los Angeles

The Broad Museum kicks off a touring exhibition of the artist’s work over the last 20 years.

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What if O.J.’s Trial Happened Now?

Among the signature images of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend was the contrasting…

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Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway

Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…

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Black Prisoners Face Higher Rate of Botched Executions, Study Finds

Lethal injections of Black people in the United States were botched more than twice as often as those of white…

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A Child’s-Eye View of One Black Family’s Covered-Wagon Journey

Lesa Cline-Ransome’s new novel in verse adds female voices to the late-19th-century Black homesteaders movement.

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It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes

Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are one of the most powerful and stealthy engines of…

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Rev. Cecil Murray, Leader Amid Los Angeles Riots, Dies at 94

He used his church, First African Methodist Episcopal, as a base to address the social ills that confronted the city’s…

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