African Americans

Stream it or skip it?

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Nicole Hannah Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for “The 1619 Project” in New York timesProduces and narrates docuseries based on that print series. in Project 1619Hannah Jones explores parts of black history in the United States that are generally unexamined or reported, and especially to the white majority, and how they fuel the institutional racism that … Read more

Opinion: The absurdity of the backlash over the MLK statue

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Editor’s note: Adrienne L. Childs, PhD, is an independent scholar and art historian, associate curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. and 2022 recipient of the Driskill Prize for her contributions to the field of African American art. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in the European … Read more