African-Americans have always occupied the lowest level of the Southland’s great social pyramid, but as the new century progressed the region seemed unable to decide who it despised more: blacks or poor whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And as a black teacher, it really bothers me to see bright African-American young men like Andy waste their potential. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The local city library’s collection of African-American books was limited to a few dog-eared copies of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery and a few other equally innocuous works. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was shooting and sulking when this African-American girl I’d never seen before walked over. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the nation said they believed it was wrong for unions and churches to refuse black people membership and for employers to refuse to hire African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’d laughed a little inside when she said that, because “being like everyone else” wasn’t even an option for me, the African-American girl wearing hijab. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rather they were quite specifically the voice of the oppressed African-American - ‘these songs are the articulate message of the slave to the world’ - and should remain so. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The young, even those who felt that the African-American apostle of nonviolence was an anachronism, reacted with anger. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I hadn’t seen them before, but on the far end of the convention center there was a group of African-American kids in matching uniforms. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It has always stood out to me as the kernel of words that totally reflects how I feel about the life experience of an African-American. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the same time, politicians were growing increasingly softer on crime—“for fear of sounding racist,” as the economist Gary Becker has written, “since African-Americans and Hispanics commit a disproportionate share of felonies.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If I majored in African and African-American studies, what would I do upon graduation? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Most of the African-American students liked to live around Central Campus. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At college, Joy quickly fell in with the OASATAU, the very long acronym for a very young group, the Organization of African and African-American Students at the American University. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about how Radar’s parents actually were in the Guinness Book when I noticed a pretty African-American girl with spiky little dreads standing above us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Do you know that she still says “Negro” and refuses to call us black or African-American? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A majority of African-Americans in the “City of Opportunity” were dead before the age of forty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite society’s misconceptions about my abilities as an African-American Muslim woman who wears hijab, I defied the odds. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the bombing, Reverend C. Herbert Oliver, an African-American pastor in Birmingham, typed out a page-long, single-spaced letter to his fellow members of the Inter-Citizens Committee. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They weren't going to let African-Americans start attending white schools until September 1957, a full two years away. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the end I decided that the women’s saber team simply wasn’t ready for change—an African-American Muslim was too much difference all at once. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Good-hearted people paid a dear price for standing up for African-Americans’ equal rights. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When given the choice between identical products offered by black and white firms, many African-Americans favored the white product. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The house, the trees, and the sidekicks cast tall shadows that reminded Nicole of an art exhibit she’d seen by an African-American artist. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She mended old books, put protective covers on new arrivals, organized monthly displays on subjects such as gardening, presidential biographies, poetry, African-American history. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

An African-American board member—Jimmy Kyle’s mom—asks me why I chose nobody’s perfect. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He finds the term “African-American” too limiting, since it doesn’t reflect his white and American Indian heritage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

During that time, African-Americans throughout the whole county were treated as second-class citizens. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Despite my best efforts to convince myself that being a doctor was my destiny, I decided to double major in African and African-American Studies and International Relations with a focus on the Middle East. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before that, African-American soldiers had separate sleeping places, separate units, and separate everything. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Miss Colorado, how do you feel about being the only African-American girl in the pageant?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think the pageant’s a little racist? I mean, in the whole history of the pageant, an African-American girl has only won once — Sherry Sparks.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Blues scales, used in blues, jazz, and other African-American traditions, grew out of a compromise between European and African scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Set in a poverty- and drug-stricken African-American fishing community in the South, Porgy and Bess was notable for its sympathetic but clear-eyed portrayal of underclass life. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Along with James Chaney, an African-American from Mississippi, they were heading south to Mississippi to investigate the burning of a church there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The intriguing question is whether Washington could project an American future after slavery that included the African-American population as prospective members of the American citizenry. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And, of course, in convincing laboring blacks that “we’re all in this together,” the Mutual was assisted by a largely unfriendly white world that did lump all African-Americans into a single group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The once tight connection between race and class has weakened, too, as many African-Americans have moved into the middle and upper middle classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In 1921, Eubie Blake’s Shuffle Along became the first musical comedy written by African-Americans and starring African- Americans to run successfully on Broadway. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He worked so hard to open up the doors that had been closed for so long to African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For a variety of reasons, both blacks and whites distorted the nature of this black success story and its significance to other African-Americans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why are African-American children faced with this dilemma at such an early age? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a deep and appreciative understanding of African-American history, and my faith had evolved and expanded to include the things in life I deemed important and acceptable. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God. So that's how it’s done. I used to think African-American women with braided hair had such full hair!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

You can speak, for example, of European classical or the European-American folk tradition, as opposed to Indian Classical50 , Japanese folk, or African-American musics. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And a tall, stout African-American man with oversize glasses wearing a gray suit, holding a manila folder. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, the Court had said that separate public schools for whites and African-Americans were not equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Whether it is fair to charge the Gershwin brothers simply because they were white Jews writing about African-Americans per se is a much less clear-cut accusation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Their cover was blown when an African-American woman who was waiting on them in a local tavern recognized one of the men as a British officer from Boston. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite jazz’s African-American origins in the Blues and in New Orleans’s funeral procession bands, the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band itself were the children of white European immigrants. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There were neat photographs on the walls, including one where you could see an African-American woman’s VJ, which made me feel self-conscious. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Blends of European, Caribbean, and African-American people combined in a way like that of no other culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Overnight we’d gone from our first African-American president to a presidential nominee who was openly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and the leader of the American Nazi Party. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The court case was about Linda Brown, an eight-year-old African-American girl from Topeka, Kansas, who lived four blocks from an elementary school, but because she was African-American, she was unable to enroll there. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If the Mutual resembled a government for African-Americans in the new century, then C. C. Spaulding served as its head of state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But Hitler’s superior Aryan-race theories were shattered by a young African-American college student named Jesse Owens, who won an unprecedented four gold medals in track events. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about African-Americans and science?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Shouldn't sailed astringently into the air, the speaker an African-American girl wearing bamboo hoop earrings. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She casts her eye on DuShawn Carter, who conveniently is seated to her right and even more conveniently is African-American. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our social worker, a warm-hearted African-American woman, was next to Grandpa. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He served as Baltimore’s state’s attorney for four years and at age thirty-eight was elected the first African-American mayor of Baltimore City, which at the time was over 60 percent black. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The glass eyes came in shades of green, blue, and light brown, not dark brown or black for African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now African-American and white soldiers shared things like sleeping quarters, meals, equipment, foxholes, trains, planes, and cars. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We call people like Kofi American-African, not African-American, which is what we call our brothers and sisters whose ancestors were slaves.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am writing this book in the hope of enlightening readers about the journey an African-American takes in having to grow up and live under the laws and traditions of oppression. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was one of the handful of African-American guys who still lived in our dorm. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I loved the African-American literature class I’d taken my freshman year where we had read fiction to try to understand American history in the nineteenth century. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, if you all hadn’t sold us, we wouldn’t be talking about any of this,” the gravelly-voiced African-American girl said, in a lowered tone that was, nonetheless, audible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first time Ifemelu went there, her counselor, Ruth, a caramel-skinned African-American woman, asked, “What do you really want to do?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a possibility, I thought, because Grandma told me that former President Truman had put African-American and white soldiers together in the armed forces during his term. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She knew right away that he was African-American, not Caribbean, not African, not a child of immigrants from either place. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I grab the leaflet—it's from Shanti's church in Harlem—a big, African-American, Catholic church. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They would herd as many African-American students as they could into Horace Mann to avoid having them in any of the other three white high schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A Child of Our Time intersperses quasi-operatic narrative passages with arrangements of African-American spirituals, as Bach had done with Lutheran hymn-chorales in his oratorios on the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And he told me about the odd feeling of being a minority, not because you were African-American but because you were an American in the wider world. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I wanted to read more Toni Morrison books and learn more about African-American history. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Frederick Douglass, the outspoken leader of the African-American community for several decades, had died only months before the Atlanta speech, leaving a vacuum that the ambitious Washington quickly filled. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But an African-American is due pain, poverty, stress, and anxiety. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her secret is good sex,” Grace said seriously, a Korean-American woman who taught African-American studies, tiny and slender, always in stylishly loose-fitting clothes, so that she seemed to float in a swish of silks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As an African-American I have experienced beautiful things, but the majority of the things I’ve experienced are not beautiful. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

An African-American woman brought me coffee on a silver tray. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a clear career path associated with African-American studies majors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

African-American traditions are so basic to popular music that they are generally not included in World music, but other North American traditions, such as Native American and Cajun traditions, sometimes are. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

These books were heavily promoted while books by African-American romance novelists and other genre authors were deemed to have limited appeal. Uncommon ground: Beverly Jenkins, diverse romance and American history the way it really happened 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Flying Lotus does the soundtrack to Kahlil Joseph's short about an African-American rodeo. Populist: Items of interest this week 2013-05-04T05:00:03Z

Mr. d’Amboise’s memories of Mr. Mitchell, City Ballet’s first African-American principal, are just as exuberant. Jacques d’Amboise: Apollo at 83 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

A stream of traffic is carrying in mostly African-American commuters from Maryland’s Prince George’s County. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

The book published in early May—the literary debut for the 42-year-old native of the Bronx and Brooklyn—prominently features African-American male main characters. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Before 1970, African-Americans were not much on television at all, except as the domestic servants of Jack Benny and Danny Thomas or as guests on variety series.” ‘Funky Turns 40’ Show Recalls a Seminal TV Moment 2014-03-19T17:25:11Z

So is Jud meant to be more oppressed than the other African-American characters? Provocative 'Oklahoma!' hits 5th Avenue stage 2012-02-11T00:06:04Z

But he said he came to see that “forcing these boys — these African-American men — to tell jokes and sing and tell their story makes it devastating.” New Musicals That Strike a Somber Chord 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z

It became one of the first museums in America to establish galleries dedicated to African-American art. Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

There are a lot of great African-American voice actors. 'Simpsons' Show Runner Still Hopes for Harry Shearer Return 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The subject of hair in the African-American community is a complex one. 8 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Young said he wanted to explore new areas of African-American culture, such as how Black music is performed online, as well as expanding online access to the museum itself. Kevin Young, Poet and Author, Is Named to Lead African American Museum 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Clooney also reflected on how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged the work of African-American actors in previous years. George Clooney Speaks Out on Oscars Diversity: 'We Are Moving in the Wrong Direction' 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

In addition to its core African-American audience, the show is increasingly strong among young white and Hispanic men, which has helped fuel its steady growth, Mr. Albrecht says. Under-the-Radar Crime Drama ‘Power’ Keeps Gaining Viewers 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

On “All In with Chris Hayes” Tuesday evening, documentarian Michael Moore discussed the decision by many African-American actors, actresses, and directors to boycott this year’s Academy Awards presentation due to its lack of diversity. Michael Moore: I can go to Hollywood, take three days of meetings, not encounter single African-American 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

The songs have not only suited his vocal range but also tacitly affirmed his African-American identity in an election year, when every politician seeks to rally his base. Critic?s Notebook: Presidents Sometimes Take the Role of First Musician 2012-02-22T23:25:19Z

The exhibitions also amount to a forceful attempt by two of the museums, the Detroit Historical Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts, to connect with African-Americans. Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

She earned undergraduate and masters degrees from Oberlin College, and a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, making her just the fourth African-American woman to earn a doctorate. There Are 13 Quotations in a U.S. Passport. Guess How Many Are From Men? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

In part, we see a man attuned to race and politics, who took his role seriously as a global ambassador for American culture and kept a close eye on the achievements of fellow African-Americans. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Much of the region, particularly African-Americans, were outraged over the opening stories in our coverage, so the hostess, and her friends, wanted a word. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

The African-American actress-singer Abbey Lincoln starred alongside Sidney Poitier in “For Love of Ivy,” which is said to be the first mainstream American movie with two black romantic leads. Dystopia, Apocalypse, Culture War: 2018 or 1968? 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The basis for his entire point of view about challenging American standard thought, socially, was about slavery and African-American culture. Book Talk: Black music, white culture and a legendary U.S. highway 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Carlisle was the first black woman to be credited as the composer of a song on the Billboard charts, and the first African-American to host her own regular, nationally broadcast radio show. 10 Women in Jazz Who Never Got Their Due 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

In 1925 the African-American philosopher Alain Locke, a shaper of the Harlem Renaissance, told black artists to advance themselves by adopting modernist forms that would move them beyond racial stereotypes. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z

Directed toward audiences 9 and older, each uses African-American history to reflect on current issues, including the Black Lives Matter movement, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. Exploring Race and Resistance for Young Audiences 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

The tension between the police and African-Americans is not being resolved in a way that is benefiting the African-American community. High School Students Explain Why They Protest Anthems and Pledges 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

In the last three years, museums have become flash points for debates about racial justice after displaying artworks by white artists that address subjects like violence against African-Americans. A Museum Canceled a Show About Police Brutality. Now It Has Regrets. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

One, “Hair Portrait Series #10,” depicting the braided hair of four African-American women on wood panel with acrylic and rhinestones, was snapped up for $55,000 just hours after the fair opened. Inside Art: At Art Basel, an Unslaked Appetite for Buying 2013-06-13T20:36:45Z

The palpable excitement of that interaction opened up African-American culture to the rest of the world and made it not only more accessible but also desirable, hip, fun. Don Cornelius: Peace, love, soul -- and civil rights 2012-02-02T00:29:00Z

A poetic tribute to African-American resilience, proclaiming joy and pride in the accomplishments of artists, athletes, leaders and thinkers, along with a sober acknowledgment of the suffering of a people. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

And I think you see it uncomfortably when when Pete encounters the rage, the anger, the frustration of the African-American community in South Bend, they let him have it. “Mayor Pete” director on capturing authenticity: "The process of campaigning is dehumanizing" 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

Or the African-American quilting tradition, which told tales of resilience and escapism during the slavery years. Are the V&A's quilts art? 2010-04-14T16:38:00Z

Most of the backup singers are African-American women who began singing in church at a young age. Backup singers take center stage in new documentary film 2013-06-14T19:30:42Z

In defending his efforts, he has pointed to his appearances at venues such as the Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club, which has strong connections to the African-American community. Has the Detroit Institute of Arts Lost Touch With Its Home Town? 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Parks, who died in 2006 at 93, was the first African-American photographer for Life magazine. Atlanta's High Museum to Showcase Gordon Parks Photos 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

His books chronicle the lives of many urban teenagers, especially young, poor African-Americans. Walter Dean Myers: Ambassador for Young People?s Literature 2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

It is a Soundsuit, a work by the contemporary African-American artist Nick Cave, famous for his distinctive fabric sculptures covered in strange gewgaws and decorative exotica. From home of Wal-Mart, a world-class museum rises 2011-10-15T00:11:04Z

Boone Isaacs, the Academy's first African-American president, is departing after serving 24 years on the board of the Academy that included four years as president. Oscars chief Boone Isaacs steps down from governors board 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

In “The Last Holiday” Scott-Heron taps into the far side of that older and weirder America — that is, the fully African-American side. Books of The Times: ?The Last Holiday: A Memoir? by Gil Scott-Heron - Review 2012-01-09T23:31:50Z

Day-to-day work and day-to-day struggle operate in complete awareness of the larger African-American experience of work and struggle. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

This wasn’t the first time Mrs. Cosby issued such a statement, nor was it the first time she expressed her longstanding belief that the media treats African-Americans unfairly. Camille Cosby Compares Husband to Emmett Till and Blames Media 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The use of blackface remains, as do the jibes aimed at a Jewish lawyer and the presence of a mostly silent African-American woman whose import is revealed only at the end. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z

Other events include a film tribute to the Irish novelist Bram Stoker, the author of "Dracula," and a series of talks exploring the links between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. ArtsBeat: Irish Arts Center Announces New Season 2012-08-06T16:57:37Z

All of those dead white men and women have been energetically reincarnated by an excellent cast of mostly African-American and Latino actors. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Pictures of a 5-year-old girl from suburban Seattle, dressed up as her heroines — Angela Davis, Rosa Parks and other African-American women who fought for freedom — were shown at the International Center of Photography recently. At Some Museums, the Art Is Now on the Outside 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

It absorbed what was happening in Europe, but found its main power source in American culture, and specifically African-American culture. A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

African-American artists, most 19th-century critics argued, lacked the refined cultivation of white, Eurocentric genius, and could create only simple music that lacked artistic depth. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

In a moving monologue, Chris’s father, an African-American Vietnam veteran in failing health, laments Chris’s late mother’s dismissive attitude toward American racism as “the arrogance and confidence of growing up as a majority.” In the Caribbean and Beyond, Aunties Are So Much More Than Just Family 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Immigrant women are beaten at higher rates than U.S. citizens, and African-American women are subjected tothe most severe forms of violence. Home: America’s most dangerous place 2013-04-18T15:23:00Z

Earnest panel discussions on the Jim Crow era and the depiction of African-Americans in Hollywood? The 10 greatest "missing movies" 2011-07-20T00:30:00Z

But, more than that, his music has a certain insurgent quality that some of the best African-American music has. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

While these films span time periods and political movements, they all share an unflinching commitment to racial justice and depict Black resistance and African-American resilience as a powerful strategy against white supremacy. We Asked Four Documentarians: How Does Film Shape the Fight for Racial Justice? 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

The singers separated themselves into sections, according to range — soprano, alto, tenor and bass — and dug into “River Flowin’ in My Soul,” written by Faya Touré, the first African-American female judge in Alabama. The tale of the 2,018-person choir: a kickoff to Special Olympics in Seattle 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

At the time, most beauty companies focused on Caucasian skin tones, with a few brands like Opal and Fashion Fair targeting the African-American customer. Skin Deep: Makeup That Addresses the Many Shades of Women 2014-03-19T21:51:01Z

Johnny is drawn as an African-American child, a choice that has proven puzzlingly “controversial,” suggesting that it is possible to create a controversy about anything. A Mark Twain Tale, Brought Back From the Dead 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

In 2017, the first “Bachelorette” chapter to star an African-American woman — Rachel Lindsay, a lawyer from Dallas — drew precipitously fewer viewers than the season before it. ‘The Bachelor’ Goes International. Will Bachelor Nation Follow? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

More than equality is at stake when Ms. Copeland — the first African-American principal female dancer in the company’s 75-year history — dances. Push for Diversity in Ballet Turns to Training the Next Generation 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

You see it when he meets with faith leaders in Dallas in that church and someone, an African-American man, says to him, why should we vote for you? “Mayor Pete” director on capturing authenticity: "The process of campaigning is dehumanizing" 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z

By Sam, of course, he meant Samuel L. Jackson, the “Pulp Fiction” star who last month criticized Hollywood for hiring black British actors to play African-American roles. From Lost Soul in London to Glory Off Broadway 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The couple met in 2013 at Harvard and connected at a Freedom Seder, a tradition that supports the African-American struggle for equality, that they both helped organize. John Dey, Philip Tizzani 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

Known for his civil rights work with black communities in the US, the African-American minister was assassinated 49 years ago this month. Minaj sorry for Malcolm X racist term 2014-02-14T09:55:22Z

Her vibrantly colored works illustrate the evolution of funk, an African-American cultural and work aesthetic, often sustained through music dating back to Emancipation. Fiber artist brings her sense of 'Funk' to Seattle 2011-12-27T19:17:32Z

She said she worked tirelessly, calling in favors, eventually scoring appearances for her client with Tavis Smiley, the African-American PBS talk-show host and on Madame Noire, a popular online lifestyle guide aimed at black women. The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

We’ve influenced African-American studies and the respect and appreciation for black history and the black experience around the world. Schomburg Center?s Director, Howard Dodson, to Retire 2010-04-19T04:51:00Z

The videos -- sadly lost now to the mists of times but roundly mocked on Regretsy and elsewhere -- featured a sassy trio of African-American, Latina and white girl stereotypes, performed by racially diverse hands. Today in hastily withdrawn ad campaigns 2011-07-28T21:30:00Z

Ashford and Simpson records sold well to the African-American community but there was also the occasional crossover song that appealed to white audiences, such as I Found a Cure and Solid. Nickolas Ashford obituary 2011-08-23T14:25:23Z

Here are mine: Puerto Rican delicacies, alternative cinema, craft beer, African-American history and psychic readings. Frugal Traveler Blog: Going Beyond Disney in Orlando 2012-12-27T14:16:48Z

Compiled by Ms. Morrison, the volume is a lavishly illustrated scrapbook spanning three centuries of African-American history, reproducing newspaper clippings, photographs, advertisements, handbills and the like. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Ed Clark, fresh from Paris, was one of the very few African-American artists exhibiting in New York. When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Warren, who had written sympathetically of segregation in a 1930 essay he later repudiated, sought out the voices of African-Americans and Ku Klux Klansmen, of ministers and teachers, businessmen and professors, farmers and lawyers. A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

The “Black and Brown Power” movements of the 1960s were a result of the political synergy created by African-Americans, Latinos, First Nations and other marginalized groups fighting for their full human rights. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

"For me, it goes back to my cultural roots," says Avery, who is half African-American and grew up in New York. Men's hats are hot again 2011-03-15T18:41:11Z

It’s also about everyday African-American life, intrinsically political and captured in images of 19th-century cotton field workers; World War I soldiers; black members of the South Carolina legislature during Reconstruction. ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Shows Artists Shaping Their Times 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

While the glamorous main building hosts celebrity speakers, African-American regulars at a Harlem branch grumble about the indignities of their daily lives, such as being confronted with textbooks that misrepresent their racial history. Frederick Wiseman: ‘I’m not a fly on the wall. I’m at least 2% conscious’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Can it be that the president’s status as the most visible and powerful African-American man in the world has inaugurated a new era of racial confusion — or perhaps a crisis in representation? Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z

Mass-produced dolls with more realistic images of African-American children weren't made until the 1950s. Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity 2012-07-28T18:16:04Z

When the state and social institutions identify African-Americans as beings in need of help, they reinforce that stigma. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Her adaptation of “Parable of the Sower” is deeply rooted in the African-American sacred music that might be called her family inheritance. A Prescient Sci-Fi ‘Parable’ Gets Set to Music 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

Back in the 1930s, a Harvard-trained African-American anthropologist, Allison Davis, and his equally refined wife, Elizabeth, risked their lives to study life under Jim Crow in a remote section of Mississippi. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

I mention to him Fox Butterfield's classic examination of African-American violence, All God's Children, which traces the legacy back to the brutality of slavery. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

A common expression among southern African-Americans when greeting a stranger, it is never simply a matter of bloodline or individual biography. Meghan Markle and the Bicultural Blackness of the Royal Wedding 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

There were the recent congressional hearings on reparations and the long history of America's crimes against African-Americans. Eve Ensler on Donald Trump, rape culture and the "unreckoned history" of America 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

With remarkable consistency, African-American viewers have showed up in large numbers to watch the Oscar broadcast when it featured a strong lineup of black nominees. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Ms. Bell, 34, a Chicago native, is an African-American artist straddling two worlds dominated by white men: media and art. Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

Decades before they had the same opportunity in other sporting events across Jim Crow America, the rodeo offered African-American inmates a rare chance to compete against their white counterparts. At the Texas Prison Rodeo, a color line dissolved 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

I go, "You wouldn't say to an African-American comedian, oh, slavery was good for your career." Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

Her firsthand account of these realities, and their effect on her extended African-American family, forms the moving final chapter of her book. Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Much of the African-American history in the museum is presented with the assumption that those bearing witness to it are outside of that experience. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

"There was a huge reservoir of good will among African-Americans for Michael Jackson," says Nelson George, author of the recently released "Thriller: The Musical Life of Michael Jackson." It's a wonderful afterlife for Michael Jackson 2010-06-21T05:17:00Z

"The New Odd Couple," a reboot with African-American actors Ron Glass and Demond Wilson in the lead roles, aired from 1982-83 but was less successful. Garry Marshall Has Died 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

In high school, I got deeply into Tolkien’s books and also loved “Five Smooth Stones,” by Ann Fairbairn, about an interracial relationship and the African-American struggle for civil rights. James B. Comey: By the Book 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Turner was one of the earliest scholars to suggest that traces of African languages and customs, brought across the Atlantic by slaves, survived in modern African-American culture. Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa 2010-09-02T21:30:00Z

What sort of doors did that open, do you think, for other African-American dramatists and in the theater in general? What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

There really aren't a lot of books that star African-American or Hispanic kids and I think that's useful thing to do, where kids can go 'Oh, that kid's like me a little bit.' Best-selling author Patterson reflects on success 2013-10-24T09:03:04Z

Many of Souza’s most famous Obama photographs feature children, including the image of a young African-American boy touching the President’s hair, and noting that it felt just like his. Donald Trump, Hiding in Plain Sight 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Civil rights activists used the song frequently; it was sung by African-American children at school segregation protests in Mississippi and Louisiana, and by participants in Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on Detroit in 1963. ‘God Bless America’: 100 Years of an Immigrant’s Anthem 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

Lucius is African-American, a beaming convert and street-wise prophet, who spends his allotted hour a day out of isolation jogging in place and praising the Lord. Gritty tale of faith, redemption and prison in 'Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train' 2012-06-21T20:29:06Z

The young American artist Wilmer Wilson IV enlarges photographic images of figures, most of them African-American, that he finds on fliers for parties and church events in his West Philadelphia neighborhood. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The idea that black writers and film-makers should censor themselves on these grounds is, of course, absurd. and Precious are no more a guide to "African-American culture" than Trainspotting is to being Scottish. The Kid by Sapphire ? review 2011-08-19T11:15:01Z

Set in Montana in the 1920s, it concerns a white female music teacher who mentors an African-American chauffeur with a remarkable singing voice, and it opens in February 2012. Book-It Repertory to adapt Western tales for 2011-12 season 2011-06-20T20:39:03Z

“What’s amazing about this is the core of our contemporary collection is now women artists — not only women but African-American and multicultural artists,” said Ms. Clearwater. A Gift of Artworks by Women for Florida Museum 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

A significant minority of African-Americans resisted the appeal of the New Deal, and many of those who embraced Franklin Roosevelt continued to vote Republican in down-ballot races. Can You Be Black and Republican? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

After the Civil Rights Act and desegregation in the 1960s, African-American performers were welcomed into other venues and the Apollo's competition increased. Harlem's Apollo Theater turns 80 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

“For marketers, our data shows that 73 percent of whites and 67 percent of Hispanics believe African-Americans influence mainstream culture,” said Andrew McCaskill, the senior vice president of communications and multicultural marketing at Nielsen. A ‘Queen Sugar’ Rush Heralds a ‘Silver Age’ for African-American TV 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

War Room” is about an African-American family who perseveres through prayer. 'Straight Outta Compton 'Tops Box Office for Third Week 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

But even when Michael Jackson became the King of Pop, there was still a need to highlight the achievements of African-Americans that were still marginalized at mainstream events. 'Soul Train' host Don Cornelius dead of suicide 2012-02-02T11:48:22Z

Legend added a poignant note about the erosion of voting rights and the staggering number of African-Americans in the prison system. Grading the Oscar Speeches: Patricia Arquette Gets an A+ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

"Jay said that music is a star in the film so I think there is a great African-American presence in this film and I am very, very grateful for it," he said. Seen and heard in Cannes 2013-05-16T10:46:09Z

In the 1960s he made sculpture in upstate New York, including two robustly carved heads with shoe-polish glaze that were inspired by African-American face jugs — and resemble Old Testament prophets. Revealing a Secret Art Life: A Painter’s Sculptures 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Scholarship on the topic all but dried up, as historians more generally emphasized the agency of African-Americans in claiming their own freedom. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mac imagined a hymn to people erased by history: Native Americans, African-Americans, Jewish immigrants. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

The mass incarceration of African-Americans for petty drug crimes, he suggests, is slavery in a new guise. Review: ‘Where to Invade Next,’ Michael Moore’s Latest Documentary 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

His epithet-dotted language — demeaning African-Americans, Italians and the Japanese, among others — is shocking now. Theater Review: Odets’s ‘Awake and Sing!’ Family Is Alive in TriBeCa 2013-08-30T23:21:35Z

The study’s 25 female subjects, aged 20 to 50 and white, African-American and Hispanic, were photographed barefaced and in three looks that researchers called natural, professional and glamorous. Skin Deep: Makeup Makes Women Appear More Competent: Study 2011-10-12T22:18:30Z

She’s talking about their reclusive white neighbor, Boo Radley, but the African-Americans of 1930s Alabama come across as singing spectators, thankful for the moral heroism of Atticus Finch. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

"Selling this doll is highly offensive to our ancestors and the African-American community," K.W. "Django Unchained" producers order end to slavery action-figures 2013-01-19T00:18:26Z

TV’s comics struggled with another new candidate in 2008: Mr. Obama, whose historic potential to become the first African-American president may have left them skittish. Donald Trump Is a Conundrum for Political Comedy 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

The show’s star, Kerry Washington, is the first African-American woman to lead an American network drama since the 1970s. ‘Scandal’ to Be Quickly Syndicated on BET 2013-07-15T21:32:07Z

Tandy was the first registered African-American architect in New York State. A Walk Through Harlem, New York’s Most Storied Neighborhood 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

African-American students comprised three-quarters of school suspensions in 2009-10, the year data was collected for the national civil rights survey. Study: Discipline harsher on African-American students in Chicago 2012-03-06T06:11:00Z

They're constantly looking for the younger one, the younger one, and for African-American women, women of colour, it's doubly hard. Smooth operator 2012-02-12T00:04:04Z

Had she been nominated, DuVernay would have become the first African-American woman to be nominated in that category. Selma to be screened at White House 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Traditionally, African-American artists didn’t get much money for their works. A Detroit Doctor Who Loves Art and Loathes Labels 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

On September 24th the president will open the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, DC: in the lobby is a lustrously glazed installation by Mr Gilliam. Rediscovery 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Her application to that university portrayed her as African-American and the first in her family to attend college, qualifying her for two admissions preferences. The Unseen Student Victims of the “Varsity Blues” College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Rather, the performances have been directed by African-Americans whose goal is to push the public to confront what happened at that location. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

It looked rather different to women with little chance of a career beyond the typists’ pool, or to African-Americans forced to the back of the bus. Seeking a way forward 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

As president, Grant appointed a record number of African-Americans to government positions all across the board, including the first black diplomat. President Clinton Looks Back at President Grant 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

But remember: It was just a few years ago that a United States Senator praised an African-American presidential candidate as “articulate” and “clean,” implying that many African-Americans are not. Social Q’s: Old Enough at Heart 2013-12-05T20:39:03Z

Her father, Preston King, an African-American who was active in the civil rights movement, and her English mother, Hazel, a teacher from an Orthodox Jewish family, separated when King was small. Oona King: 'I couldn't resist Dancing On Ice' 2013-01-04T22:00:02Z

Born bourgeois, the charismatic Ms. Boggs grew interested in Marxism and social justice through her university studies and exposure to African-American struggles in Chicago. Movie Review: ‘American Revolutionary’ Extols the Life of Grace Lee Boggs 2014-03-20T23:36:35Z

A stirring finale, but it was difficult not to notice that Mr. Wilkins and the five soloists — not to mention the chorus — far outnumbered the single African-American musician currently in the orchestra. Review: ‘In Their Footsteps,’ a New York Philharmonic Tribute 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

When “Jitney” opens in New York City this month, it will be the final work in August Wilson’s 10-play cycle about African-American lives in the 20th century to reach Broadway. August Wilson on Broadway: A History 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Not only does my body thank me but I’m thankful as an activist and an African-American artist to see the spectacle of black intellect communicated by five black men in this way. ArtsBeat Blog: Under the Radar: 5 Questions About 'Word Becomes Flesh' 2012-01-06T19:39:12Z

This absence is particularly glaring because conservatism’s advocacy of corporate sovereignty and individual liberty is only matched by its antipathy toward civil rights for African-Americans and other communities of color. What Is a Conservative? And Other Letters to the Editor 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

In a context that has nothing to do with race, he refers to “the African-American comedian Chris Rock.” 'How We Are,’ by Vincent Deary, Mixes Psychology and Philosophy 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Killer Mike directly asked the self-described democratic socialist who trails rival Hillary Clinton by 65 percent among African-American voters in South Carolina, according to one recent poll. “Talking Shop with Bernie Sanders”: Watch Killer Mike’s full 6-part interview 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

And as a “strong African-American character — successful, powerful, passionate — he opened the doors for so many actors. He was just a wonderful human being.” ‘Young and the Restless’ honors Kristoff St. John, his work 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

By deploying troops abroad as warriors for and emissaries of American democracy, the military literally exported the African-American freedom struggle. African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Eventually, at the Public Theater and then on Broadway, it became a landmark production of American theater, its script a classic of African-American literature. ‘For Colored Girls’ Is a Choreopoem. What’s a Choreopoem? 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

While the African-American ensembles danced for the most part to pounding, clattering, deliciously rhythmic percussion, the Malagasy tunes were folksier and more melodic, heavy on the accordion and reminiscent of zydeco or Cajun music. Groupe Bakomanga and Asase Yaa Perform at DanceAfrica 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

Communities across the North became sundown towns, barring African-Americans formally or informally. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z

Even Elder Alden Hearst is starting to get antsy, and he’s long been a calm, dependable intermediary between his African-American community and the white power structure of the Southern city where he lives. Review: In ‘Travisville,’ the Rocky Path of Change in a Southern Town 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

Abrams, who is African-American and once served in the Georgia House of Representatives, encouraged those in the room to make a difference. Reese Witherspoon honored at Women in Entertainment gala 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Though written for Dove’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Thomas and Beulah,” “Daystar” takes on a subject that was of central importance to Brooks — the quotidian outer life and the rich inner life of African-American mothers: Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

The central story leads her to consider the larger arc of African-American women and their crafts throughout history, including in her own family, and the ways they have expressed love, hope and continuance. Summer Is Coming. Bring a Book. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

As an African-American actress, Ms. Benton has tasked herself with proving that women who look like her can play — and be — the girl who saves the day and gets the guy and nails the song. Denée Benton, Tony Nominee, Embraces Her Inner Natasha 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

So we find Tate ranting at Malcolm about why African-American is such an imprecise and incorrect term. 'War,' Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s New Play 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Tasha said, “I thought I was a strong, tough, impermeable, African-American athlete. Nobody could manipulate me, nobody could take advantage of me.” "These girls became perfect prey": The women who ended Larry Nassar's abuse tell their stories 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z

The opening production, “Up & Up: The Dr. Mae C. Jemison Story,” for ages 7 through 15, centers on the true story of Dr. Jemison’s professional ascent: She became the first African-American female astronaut. Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z

This African-American artist's work is delicate yet ferocious, tackling racial and gender politics, slavery and white suprematism in America's south with cut-paper silhouettes and room-sized tableaux. 2013 visual art preview: Manet's portraits and Lowry reappraised 2012-12-30T19:45:02Z

While working in theater, he did things like cast Lorraine Hansberry’s play “A Raisin in the Sun,” about an African-American family struggling to realize its dreams, with both black and white family members. What Makes Pope.L’s Art Endure? (It’s Not the Famous Crawls) 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

“It absorbed what was happening in Europe,” he wrote, “but found its main power source in American culture, and specifically African-American culture.” Whitney Museum Acquires Major Work by Archibald Motley 1454-10-20T05:00:00Z

The Rangers’ horrific treatment of African-Americans after the war equaled that in Mississippi and Georgia. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Once in a while, then they would do African-American night, Latino night, ladies' nights. Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

For the institute, that cooperation was an important component in seeking closer ties with African-Americans in the city, a goal of the museum director, Salvador Salort-Pons. Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Among those thousands, there is just one African-American man, astride a horse. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

The predominantly white mainstream art world had no time for her as a self-described Caribbean African-American. Bliss and Anger in Balance: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

That hybrid exhibition space and community center is a repository of African-American cultural objects that Mr. Gates is continually gathering. Using Discards to Build Art (and Rebuild a City) 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

He referred to Hattie McDaniel’s Oscar win, the first for an African-American actress, for playing a maid in “Gone With the Wind,” and wondered why filmmakers or audiences can’t get past that image. The Carpetbagger: Viola Davis on a Mind-Set That Harms Black Actors 2012-02-14T13:30:08Z

CD Forum, which produces and presents African-American cultural programs in the Seattle area, also announced its 2011-12 lineup, themed "Blues & The Funk." CD Forum director Kumani Gantt resigns 2011-09-15T22:27:03Z

The canvases, by the African-American artists Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff, were scheduled to be taken down and sent to Washington. Magnificent Obsessions: Pursuits of a Lifetime 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

For example, the “Mississippi Chinese” were laborers and entrepreneurs who often formed families and created a community with African-Americans under the regime of Jim and Jane Crow during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Who gets to borrow white privilege? This is what happens when an Asian-American cop kills an unarmed African-American 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

For all that, it’s a striking addition, scholars say, to the still-small shelf of published memoirs by African-American women of the early 20th century. A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders 2014-02-16T22:07:35Z

I found Bob Ewell in the comment section, and the thing that he really brings in this, and, of course, there's hatred for African-Americans, and I threw in anti-Semitism. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

The GOP also argued a new House district linking parts of Springfield with Decatur wrongfully united two disparate groups of African-American voters.But the panel of U.S. Federal judges uphold Democratic map 2011-12-07T23:31:00Z

After 1868, African-Americans are citizens, if they are born in the United States. The History Behind the Birthright Citizenship Battle 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

The show’s other sweet spot — one that network executives seem less eager to discuss — is its success among African-American audiences. ‘Scandal’ on ABC Is Breaking Barriers 2013-01-16T23:09:54Z

Before beginning his writing career, Mr. Greenlee was one of the first African-Americans to serve in the United States Information Agency, a branch of the State Department that promotes American interests abroad. Sam Greenlee, Writer, Producer, Government Agent, Dies at 83 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Just to recap, there are two, only two, I should say, significant African-American characters in the novel — Calpurnia the maid and Tom Robinson the accused. Aaron Sorkin read Breitbart for inspiration as he wrote "To Kill a Mockingbird" script 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Horn, a straight-ahead jazz vocalist who presents music from throughout the African-American canon with a searing, powerful delivery, will open. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

In graphic detail Swanson recounts the 1893 murder of the African-American Henry Smith, of Paris, Texas. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

You’re the first African-American gymnast to win gold in a women’s gymnastics all-around event and the first black female in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion. No one cries for Lolo Jones 2012-08-08T11:03:00Z

She was a vivid figure, often described as beautiful — a dark-skinned African-American woman whose long hair, frequently worn in corn rows, turned silver in her later years. Ellen Stewart, Off Off Broadway Pioneer, Dies at 91 2011-01-13T18:11:40Z

The production's easy social mingling of white settlers and their African-American neighbors as they dance, drink, bathe and mete out frontier justice together may be a historical stretch. Provocative 'Oklahoma!' hits 5th Avenue stage 2012-02-11T00:06:04Z

But for many younger African-American women, the magazine has lost some of its cachet. Desir?e Rogers, Post Crash 2010-10-01T21:16:00Z

They were part of a gruesome American history of surgery on African-Americans in the name of science, notably documented in “Medical Apartheid,” a 2007 book by Harriet A. Washington. Four Artists to Watch Now 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

In the United States, tens of thousands of people become infected with H.I.V. every year; most of them are gay men, and most of these men are either African-American or Latino. Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

A separate set of women brought educational opportunity to African-American youth, often through the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

With the exception of one man at the bar wearing a football sweatshirt, the only African-Americans were staff members. A Partisan Crowd Watches the Debate at the New Trump Hotel 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The arrangement that began then—a deeply resentful poor white wing in conflict with an urban, immigrant, and African-American “progressive” wing—is a fixed part of our politics, not to mention our poetics. The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Sweet Auburn is a once-thriving African-American commercial district now threatened by development along its commercial corridor. ArtsBeat: Frazier's Gym and King's Neighborhood Added to Endangered List 2012-06-06T04:01:20Z

Among the only cultural attractions is the workshop of the 19th-century cabinetmaker Thomas Day, a prominent free African-American whose house is now a historic site. Lisa D’Amour Juggles ‘Airline Highway’ and ‘Milton,’ a Tale of Five Towns 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

The artist, Kate Charles, who is not identified until the credits at the end, is white, and she specializes in African-American reborns, which, she says, are less likely than white reborns to look dead. The Screening Room: “Dollhouse” 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

The roots for this moment can be traced back to an album celebrating its 50th anniversary — “Right On Be Free,” the debut by an African-American youth choir called the Voices of East Harlem. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Jenkins Johnson Gallery of San Francisco, exhibiting at the Swiss edition of the fair for the first time, will show a selection of images by the African-American photographer Gordon Parks in the Survey sector. Commerce Meets Culture at Art Basel 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

A young black woman asked an African-American police supervisor, “Do you believe that black lives matter?” The young people will save us: My experience marching with Black Lives Matter in Chicago 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

“Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it’s all African-American music,” he told The San Francisco Chronicle in 1993. Johnny Otis, Rhythm and Blues Musician, Dies at 90 2012-01-20T01:42:36Z

Everything about Seville reminded me of New Orleans, and it is one of three places I have visited in the world as an African-American Southerner where I felt completely at ease — and at home. How Much Did You Spend on Your Solo Vacation? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

He is taller, smarter and possessed of social skills not seen in Turnbow men: handsome, Harvard educated, African-American with a lilting Virgin Islands accent, and named after poets. Books of The Times: Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Flight Behavior’ 2012-11-18T22:17:53Z

A show from the collection called “30 Americans,” featuring works by 30 African-American artists, will be exhibited at several museums, including the Corcoran in the fall of 2011. Corcoran Gallery?s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows 2010-04-14T22:27:00Z

According to an account given by Mr. Capote’s cousin, Klan members came because they heard African-American guests had been invited to the costume party, and left after Nelle’s father, A. C. Lee, confronted them. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Upon moving to Los Angeles 10 years ago, she was struck by the seeming stratification among Latinos and African-Americans in the city. film: Wedding Plan: Jump a Broom or Eat Goat? 2010-03-05T21:45:00Z

Sensitive to perceived racial slights, Darryl, an African-American, is rankled by Nick’s decision to excise a minor character, a black doorman, from their work in progress. Movie Review: ‘Supporting Characters,’ Directed by Daniel Schechter 2013-01-25T02:05:45Z

Back in the '60s, she said, most neighborhood businesses — barber shops, restaurants, salons — were predominantly African-American. Walk through civil-rights history in the CD 2011-10-12T20:48:10Z

Empathy is what is invoked, on both sides, in confrontations between the police and African-Americans. Review: ‘Against Empathy,’ or the Right Way to Feel Someone’s Pain 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

In Arkansas, for example, there is Little Rock Central High School, where nine brave African-American students enrolled in an all-white high school. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

"Huey and Bobby always said that the African-American community wasn't a reading community but they learned through observation and participation," Douglas says. After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers 2010-09-02T21:45:00Z

At the time of George Washington's death in 1799, the plantation's still held 317 slaves, 90 percent of whom were African-Americans. Meghan McCain's rant on Meghan Markle leaves Whoopi Goldberg visibly stumped 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Casel — “a spectacular tap artist,” according to The New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas — also draws from her African-American and Puerto Rican roots in her dancing. 11 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Ms. Shange and Ms. Bayeza, 59, worked for 15 years on the complex task of jointly writing a novel that features seven generations of an African-American family sustained by one another and by music. A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z

But because most African-Americans were listed only as property on official documents, their descendants lack the marriage records, wills, property and other information to find them. Wanda Sykes Finds Ancestors Thanks to Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2012-03-19T22:13:21Z

That Taylor is male and the LaCroixes African-American complicates the show’s class, race and gender dynamics, but it doesn’t simply invert them. In ‘American Crime’ Season 2, a Rape Accusation Raises Troubling Questions 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Set in an African-American boys’ school, this play follows the traditional formula of pitting a maverick — here, an unsettlingly effeminate student — against the many. Theater: Something Off Key at a Gospel Choir 2013-06-28T19:43:02Z

Born in Nassau, in the Bahamas, and based in New York, Mr. Strachan represented the Bahamas five years ago in its first Venice Biennale pavilion with a project resurrecting another African-American pioneer: Mathew Henson. Tavares Strachan Teams With SpaceX to Launch Satellite-Sculpture Into Orbit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

One of Mr. Clement’s longest association was with Mr. Pride, country music’s first African-American superstar. Jack Clement, Producer and Country Songwriter, Dies at 82 2013-08-09T00:17:06Z

Atlanta’s first African-American mayor, Maynard Jackson, noted that the cyclorama portrayed “a battle that helped free my ancestors” and vowed to keep it in the city. A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

On Broadway alone, the numbers actually dipped two per cent from the previous year, and African-American representation dropped from twenty-one to nine per cent. The 2016 Tony Nominations: Not All About the Hamiltons 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lurie shoehorns Southern racial history and the shadow of war into a single character, an African-American sheriff, played by Laz Alonso, who is a veteran of the Iraq war. | 'Straw Dogs': A Remake of ?Straw Dogs,? by Rod Lurie - Review 2011-09-15T22:30:47Z

This tiny dot of space contains a long stretch of the African-American story, Mr. Gardullo said. An Angola Tower and Cell Are Bound for National Mall 2013-07-08T17:06:35Z

Cora is romantically involved with Troy, an African-American restaurant worker whose sister, Reyna, is mentally ill. A Debut Novelist’s Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The recent “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” exhibition at the Tate Modern in London enhanced Mr. Hammons’s reputation as being among the most influential African-American contemporary artists. Contemporary Art Sales: Do I Hear $100 Million? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z

I think that what Malcolm X did, though, was to tap into a long-running tradition within the African-American community, which is that at certain moments it's important for African-Americans to assert their manhood, their worth. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

The Censored Eleven are undeniably riddled with astonishingly inappropriate depictions of African-American culture. It's time to release Looney Tunes' racist cartoons 2010-10-15T20:01:00Z

So both the Academy and ABC are again using elements in the show to hook hard-to-hold viewers: teenagers, men and particularly African-Americans. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Large-scale paintings like “Method Man” and “James Brown is Dead” continue to affirm his fascination with African-American commerce. Hoop Dreams of His Own Design 2010-12-10T16:55:00Z

The African-American actor was asked, “What’s it like to be a black man on a soap opera these days?” and called “a beautiful chocolate man.” Daytime Emmys red-carpet banter turns dark 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if some African-Americans succeed without affirmative action. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

To find TV shows that reflect the African-American experience, you still have to venture into the cable hinterlands more often than not. Empire's state of mind: the new TV shows highlighting African Americans 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

“African-Americans, we tend to hold a body a little longer,” she said of the tradition of embalming. Even at Her Funeral Celebrations, Aretha Franklin Was the Height of Glamour 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

An anticipatory article in The Chicago Defender, the nation’s pre-eminent African-American weekly, wondered if “Greenlee’s masterpiece” might “touch off race warfare.” The Spy Movie That Upset the American Dream 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z

Kanye West was the lone African-American to crack the top 30 albums. Alanis Morissette, Corin Tucker and the Frustrating/ Promising State of Women in Rock 2012-08-28T13:45:49Z

“Hidden Figures” helped inspire a larger conversation about African-American women onscreen. Taraji P. Henson: Talking Cookie, and the Impact of ‘Hidden Figures’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

But he has also read Harriet A. Washington’s “Medical Apartheid,” on medical experimentation on African-Americans — a theme explored by contemporary artists such as Doreen Garner. This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” shows an African-American soldier on a Revolutionary War battlefield, fighting on the British side. ‘Truth B Told’ in all kinds of ways by region’s black artists in Onyx show 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The title of Sebastián Silva’s film “Tyrel” comes from a momentary mispronunciation of the African-American protagonist’s name, but it speaks to the simmering discomfort summoned by this agonizingly dead-on cringe comedy-drama. ‘Tyrel’ Review: Drowning in a Whirlpool of Drunken Dudes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Or “Julia,” starring Diahann Carroll, the first African-American woman featured in her own sitcom, playing a widowed nurse making it on her own. Looking Back (and Learning From) ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Time spent in New York, however, and in the American South to start on a new project about African-American families, soon wore that illusion away. What Ernest Cole’s Hidden Camera Revealed 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

And it was increasingly used against abolitionists, and to block any efforts by African-Americans, free or enslaved, to secure rights or otherwise challenge slavery and white supremacy. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Esso was the only chain of service stations that recognized that a dollar was no other color than green, and many hotel chains closed their doors to African-Americans until the Civil Rights Act of 1964. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

"I'm African-American, I'm African, I'm black as the moon," he raps. Kendrick Lamar releases scathing new single, 'The Blacker the Berry' 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

“African-Americans do not have a long tradition of wealth like the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts or Whitneys,” said Faye Wattleton, one of more than a dozen black board members of Jazz at Lincoln Center. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

It is one of the last major campaigns of the war, and by the time Ulysses S. Grant gets there, one in eight soldiers is African-American. Q&A: Ta-Nehisi Coates On His Obsession With the Civil War 2012-06-01T18:18:51Z

As the script specifies, all of the actors here are African-American. Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

This is a little Italian kid walking around Hoboken, New Jersey, in danger of getting beaten if he walked into the wrong Irish-American neighborhood or African-American neighborhood. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

In an on-camera interview, Sam Roberts of The Times describes a “missing synapse” of empathy with the city’s African-American population, though “Koch” does not pursue this theme as far as it might. Movie Review: ‘Koch,’ Neil Barsky’s Documentary on the Former Mayor 2013-01-31T16:55:40Z

Burr Oak was the area's first cemetery to allow blacks to be interred there, and countless African-American families would bury relatives there over the years. Burr Oak manager sent to prison for 12 years 2011-10-31T20:11:00Z

In a follow-up study using more in-depth analysis of the lipid response to the balanced moderately high fat diet, we found a difference in response between Caucasian females and African-American females. Let them eat more fat? Researcher argues that a balance of types of fat is the key 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

“We didn’t want this history, like so much of African-American history, to get lost,” said Mrs. D’Alessandro, herself a Sandy Ground descendant. Offbeat History, Off the Beaten Path 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The everyday hopes and heartbreaks of African-Americans were dramatized in August Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle. ‘Giving Voice’ Review: August Wilson Is Uplifting a New Generation 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

“Cultural appropriation is something that continually happens to African-American artists,” she said, “and I want to make a stand.” Artist Says Kendrick Lamar Video for ‘Black Panther’ Song Stole Her Work 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

A performer since the 1950s, he broke ground as the first African-American comedian to be called over to the couch for a conversation on “The Tonight Show.” Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Demographics of the second-weekend audience were 33 percent African-American, 37 percent Caucasian, 18 percent Hispanic, 7 percent Asian and 5 percent others. Box Office: 'Black Panther' rules with $108 million in second weekend 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

The plan was widely seen as a success in terms of heading off threats of a boycott over the Oscars’ diversity deficit, winning support from the African-American director of Selma, Ava DuVernay, among others. Oscars accused of bypassing own rules in push to plug diversity gap 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

The mayor, the principal and the girl group Josie and the Pussycats are all African-American. Review: In ‘Riverdale,’ Archie Is Hot and Haunted 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

An African-American from Mobile, Ala., Je’ Woodyard remembers seeing similarities in the treatment of blacks in the South and the shunning of the disabled. ‘Crip Camp’ Review: After Those Summers, Nothing Was the Same 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Many people stopped by the Courier offices because of its clout with African-Americans, Glasco said. Pa. exhibit showcases legendary black photographer 2011-11-27T22:31:04Z

Such films represent a pretty narrow segment of cinema by or about African-Americans. Acorn TV, Urban Movie Channel, Shudder: Exploring Fringe Caves Online 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

How to keep dancing under those circumstances, as an African-American woman with your African-American colleagues? Review: Mourning in Tap Shoes at Jacob’s Pillow 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The exhibit opened Nov. 9 and runs through Jan. 24 next year, and includes about 60 pieces from the Cosbys’ African-American art collection, along with more than 100 of the museum’s own artworks. The Smithsonian Will Continue an Exhibition of Cosby Art Collection 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s different and much less robust than the effort to reach African-American audiences. Why are so many films for Latinos bad? 2011-01-28T15:01:00Z

At the same time, Ms. Golden must defend the Studio Museum’s importance in an age when the work of African-American artists is increasingly making its way into mainstream institutions. The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The city is now 85 per cent African-American, "run entirely by a black political elite". The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-04T22:55:16Z

Twice, Carroll referred to the investigation of his client – who is African-American -- as a “lynching.” Prosecutors: Man partied after shooting cop 2011-09-20T20:08:00Z

Your appointment as an African-American on the “Who’s Who” editorial board is being hailed as a landmark. Star Jones Puts Her Spin on a New A-List 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

While public opinion research is clear that white Americans are extremely hostile to reparations for slavery in the case of African-Americans, many white Americans actually support the idea of reparations in the abstract. White people just don’t get it: Bernie Sanders, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the reality of reparations 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dorsey was on duty when “Rumors of War,” a bronze statue of a triumphant African-American man riding a horse, atop a limestone base, was brought in by flatbed truck. They Keep Times Square in Order, and a Statue Front and Center 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Greed and corruption are themselves the magnetic fields that pull together would-be players — white, Latino and African-American. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The protagonist of this graphic novel is an art-loving seventh grader who is starting at a fancy private school, where he is one of the few African-American students. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

He contended that black actors should only play roles specifically written for African-Americans, as Caucasian actors should only play white roles. Teen actors in spotlight in August Wilson Monologue Competition 2011-03-04T21:23:15Z

He suggests that African-Americans have never been especially fond of the Fourth of July, for example, partly because the framers of the Declaration of Independence tolerated slavery and partly because the day could be menacing. Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race 2011-08-11T22:00:15Z

She retired in 2019, two years after one of her former students, Melvin Carter III, was elected St. Paul’s first African-American mayor. Two Chefs Moved to Rural Minnesota to Expand on Their Mission of Racial Justice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

With “On My Block,” she’s stayed in Southern California but shifted the demographics, setting the show in a fictional section of Los Angeles called Freeridge, whose residents are predominantly Latino and African-American. On Netflix, a Growing Wave of Shows for and About Teenagers 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Right now, 83 percent of African-American patients who need marrow transplants don't find matches after six months of searching, according to the National Marrow Donor Program, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping patients receive transplants. B'way to hold drive for sick 'Lion King' kid star 2010-07-22T09:31:00Z

Sadly, he scarcely acknowledges that the self-assertion of African-Americans defined his public life. The Ghost That Haunts Grant’s Memoirs 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Sarah Bellamy is the artistic director of Penumbra Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota, one of only three professional African-American theaters in the nation to offer a full season of performances. Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

So the moderator shows the video of Oprah, and 60 seconds in the white guy sits up, nudges the African-American guy and smiles and goes, 'She's great. A Chicago audition to remember 2011-05-15T23:38:00Z

In New Orleans, where public swimming pools were not open to African-Americans, he integrated the pool at the archdiocese’s Notre Dame Seminary. Archbishop Philip M. Hannan Dies at 98 2011-09-30T04:56:15Z

A few miles away from Savannah’s black main street is Laurel Grove South Cemetery, the most significant burial ground for local African-Americans who died in the 19th and 20th centuries. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

She has a master's in African-American studies from Columbia University. What Amanda Seales knows: On comedy, authenticity and success on her own terms 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

After decades of neglect, the 1970s at last saw African-Americans begin to get decent roles in cowboy movies. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z

I will not stay quiet while Hollywood creates an unrealistic New York City or any other city by erasing African-Americans from the landscape. Motherlode Blog: Hollywood to Black Mothers: Stay Home 2012-06-19T01:02:47Z

I was visiting a friend and I remember we walked into the Exhibition Hall and there was this African-American gospel choir – mostly kids – led by an enthusiastic woman. Ten great Bumbershoot performances 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Founded in 1913 at Howard University, the Delta Sigma Theta aims to “promote academic excellence and provide assistance to those in need,” according to their mission statement, with an emphasis on the African-American community. Sorority cancels national convention, donates 17,000 meals to Hurricane Barry victims 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

Traditionally films made for, and often by, African-Americans have fallen within a very narrow definition of our experience. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z

To some African-American members of the church, though, such celebrations seem premature given the persistent presence of racist ideas within the church. Mormons confront a history of Church racism 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

Onstage in the 1990s, she was Norma Desmond in the Canadian company of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical “Sunset Boulevard,” the first African-American to play the role. Diahann Carroll, Actress Who Broke Barriers With ‘Julia,’ Dies at 84 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

“It sounds simple, but there just aren’t many African-American characters written on TV by African-American writers.” With ‘Being Mary Jane,’ Mara Brock Akil Specializes in Lifelike Portraits of Women 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Ebony Flowers is an African-American education researcher who composed her Ph.D. dissertation, in 2017, largely in comics form. Graphic Novels With Fresh Voices From the Margins 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Again, his outsider status as a queer working-class African-American is a big part of the answer. He Captured a Clandestine Gay Culture Amid the Derelict Piers 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Just about every single piece that’s in this space is about an African-American artist in conversation with the culture. If These Walls Could Talk? They Do 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

For many African-American artists looking for gallery representation in the 1980s, George N’Namdi was the only game in town. Race, Loyalty and Transparency in an Artist’s Lawsuit 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Discussing mental health within the African-American community is a dangerously taboo topic. “An outburst of emotions black America can relate to”: Kendrick Lamar’s newest release feels like the back story to his masterpiece, “To Pimp a Butterfly” 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

“Can you imagine the audacity to take an African-American and Diana Adams, the essence and purity of Caucasian dance, and to put them together on the stage?” Arthur Mitchell, Ballet’s ‘Grandfather of Diversity’ 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The first African-American woman to receive this honor, among the art world’s most prestigious, Ms. Leigh was selected by the U.S. Simone Leigh Is First Black Woman to Represent U.S. at Venice Biennale 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

It seems patently absurd to suggest that an African-American man who eroticizes racism has a deep-seated desire for the days before the civil-rights movement. Girls would love science, if it was more like Katy Perry 2012-06-25T15:25:00Z

“The tourism industry is decimating African-American communities and flattening nuance and narrative.” Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z

Her mom died in childbirth and her African-American dad isn’t in the picture. ‘Black or White’: Well-acted film gets into gray areas of race 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The stories here deal with race, class, migration and love, and are an invaluable window into African-American experiences during the Harlem Renaissance. 10 Books to Watch For in January 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

In the meantime, she’s tending to her garden, lined with collard greens — “we are African-American, after all” — and kale, which the groundhog regularly eats. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

The three African-American artists were honored at a gala ceremony on Broadway hosted by British supermodel Naomi Campbell and attended by Monaco's Prince Albert II and his wife Princess Charlene. 'Hamilton' star Odom Jr., Queen Latifah win Grace awards 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Brown said he used that experience to help shape the story, but said the emotional impetus was police shootings of African-Americans. TV star Kerry Washington returns to Broadway in 'American Son' 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

The defense lawyer, Tom’s protégée, Regina Lincoln, is a moderate Republican running against him, angling to be the state’s first African-American female governor. Enlisting Lincoln and Caesar in the Culture Wars 2010-07-18T02:53:00Z

He photographed the civil rights marches led by Rev. Al Sharpton in the late 1980s and early 1990s after white youth killed a young African-American man in Howard Beach. The Village Voice’s photographers captured change, turmoil unfolding on New York City’s streets 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z

"We were electing the Southern Baptist Convention's first African-American president and did not want to distract from that historic moment." Retailer's decision to drop The Blind Side upsets Christian faithful 2012-07-17T16:14:12Z

"Detroit" recreates the summer civil unrest by African-Americans in the city 50 years ago, and the little-known police interrogation and shootings of three young black men at the Algiers Motel. Director of harrowing 'Detroit' hopes film starts dialogue on race 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

She acknowledged the significance of an African-American woman starring in a hit drama show while saying television needs to reflect the overall diversity of the American public. All eyes on Kerry Washington, return of ‘Scandal’ 2013-08-07T20:15:54Z

Again, the finger was pointed at fraudulent voting by women, African-Americans and even “citizens of Philadelphia.” On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

“I hate when I do a film, and it has a lot of African-Americans and they call it a black film,” Ms. Henson said. Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

“It made it easier for white Northerners to look at African-American migrants arriving in places like Chicago and say, ‘Why can’t you act like these Negroes?’” The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

The violent meaning of “Chaino” is evident without knowing that Mr. Edwards is African-American. Art in Review: MELVIN EDWARDS: ?Sculptures 1964-2010? 2010-10-15T07:15:00Z

Schomburg was a historian who collected black texts in order to counteract the erasure of a culture of people, be they African-American, Afro-Latino/a, or any part of the African Diaspora.  “Racism begins in our imagination:” How the overwhelming whiteness of “Boyhood” feeds dangerous Hollywood myths 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

As a retired African-American general in the Marine Corps said to me after I told him my story, “No one has to explain institutional racism to a black man.” Why I left the GOP 2012-09-10T13:30:00Z

Professor Bowdre believes that "the highly sexualised and comical meanings placed on African-American bodies in the context of the United States" inhibit film-makers from allowing black characters to engage properly with romance. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

Over decades, she read and researched hundreds of rare and often forgotten works of the African-American culinary record. The Best Cookbooks of the Century So Far 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z

It is, as he puts it, “the story of what I read, heard, and saw at the crossroads of African-American and American culture, which, as we shall see, may be much the same rocky road.” Books of The Times: ?The Grey Album? by Kevin Young 2012-03-15T21:50:21Z

He is one of the greatest African-American intellectuals of the 20th century. Theater Review: ‘Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington,’ From the New Federal Theater 2014-01-31T22:37:49Z

He was the most prominent African-American dealer of African art and he was a painter himself. ‘Love at First Sight’ Inspired This African Art Collection 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

During the latter’s fall/winter 2018 presentation, models paraded past one of Mack’s fabric installations, which was inspired by nautical flags and African-American migration. Meet the Mixed-Media Painter Inspired by Lil’ Kim 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

By lucky chance, that happened to be at the precise moment when many African-Americans fastened onto the idea of having their coiffures shaved into complex patterns and topiary designs. The Gimlet Eye: Haircuts From the 1980s Are Back 2010-06-17T01:39:00Z

Steve Almond: Your letter made me think of James Baldwin’s famous formulation that to be African-American in this country “and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time.” How Do I Deal with My Anger Toward Men? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

It could also use a few paintings by the fascinating African-American modernist William H. Johnson. A Trans-Atlantic View of Modernism 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

New audience members flooded in to attend performances by Misty Copeland, the company’s first African-American principal. Savoring the Spectrum of American Ballet Theater’s Rich Season 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

In each of those productions, as in the one in Chicago, “Hillary” was played by an African-American woman. Hillary Clinton Is Coming to Broadway. As a Character in a Play. 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Because the African-American share of the population is relatively constant, Democratic hopes for majority status without sufficient white working-class votes rest on the immigration-fueled growth of the Latino population. Dear Class of 2012, life isn’t easy 2012-06-26T20:49:00Z

Below, Young talks about the African-American community’s relationship to guns, the history he ended up leaving out of the book and more. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: An Unlikely Relationship With Guns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Standing before a racially integrated Town Hall audience in New York, Ms. Hansberry, then 34, sought to counter the growing white liberal criticism of the racial militancy expressed by a younger generation of African-Americans. For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

African-Americans are remarkably religious even for a country known for its faithfulness, as the United States is. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

He once canceled 23 of 25 concerts in the South when local officials would not allow his African-American bass player, Eugene Wright, to appear with the rest of the group. Jazz legend Dave Brubeck dies at 91 2012-12-06T03:26:03Z

According to a 2006 Kaiser Foundation Family report, the number of incarcerated African-American men ages 18-29 is nearly seven times that of white men. African-American singles change their approach to dating 2011-07-19T04:30:28Z

A trending online petition is calling for Greater Rochester International Airport to be renamed after African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s great that they’re including this new photograph and particularly if it’s a new young African-American photographer.” Vogue Beyoncé Portrait Heading to Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

There’s a long literary strain of science fiction and fantasy that draws on African and African-American folklore, from masters like Ben Okri and Octavia Butler, and a deep tradition of magical realism in African-American literature. Nnedi Okorafor and the Fantasy Genre She Is Helping Redefine 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Madisonville had no high school that allowed African-Americans, so she went to high school in New Orleans and worked in French Quarter restaurants after graduation. New Orleans’s Queen of Creole Cooking, at Ninety-Three 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

He was raised by Delora and his African-American stepfather, a theatre manager called Irving; he invokes both frequently and reverently. Vin Diesel on Guardians of the Galaxy: 'I didn't realise how much I love trees' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Yet if there's one group unscathed by the word, it's young African-Americans, blissfully immune from this particular history. High school play seizes power from the N-word 2011-04-30T16:16:06Z

The crisis has intensified the conversation about inequality, especially as data has emerged in some states showing that African-Americans and Hispanics account for a disproportionate share of deaths. Will a Pandemic Shatter the Perception of American Exceptionalism? 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z

So, the election of an African-American president has not cast us into a sunlit utopian "post-racial" society? Morgan Freeman: Obama, Mandela, Batman and me 2012-07-12T19:00:01Z

Why do you think he felt this draw to proselytizing African-Americans, black women especially?  Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The fact that the entertainment industry is not necessarily inclusive of the African-American experience is a similar form of neglect and is a symptom of a deeper problem. Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1993, Ms. Morrison was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s books and essay collections. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

She had a lot to learn; initially, as she admits in her witty and self-deprecating introduction to the show’s catalog, she “thought Don Cherry was an African-American musician.” Art Review: ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA 2012-08-30T21:44:01Z

In narration, Mr. Clapton talks of being practically mesmerized by music by African-American musicians he heard on the radio as a child. Review: ‘Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars,’ of Triumphs and Tragedies 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

African-Americans interested in creating consumer products reacted to their exclusion from mainstream companies by building a parallel beauty industry focused on hair. At the ‘Hairdresser’s Fashion Week,’ Celebrating Black Beauty 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Among African-American voters, a key Democratic constituency, Quinn's support was soft at 48 percent, with 35 percent of blacks surveyed disapproving. Tribune/WGN-TV poll: Quinn still unpopular 2012-02-10T04:01:00Z

“Wade in the Water” is pinned together by a suite of found poems that employ near-verbatim the letters and statements of African-American Civil War veterans and their families. Scorching, Sophisticated New Work From Two of America’s Leading Poets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

“In the South, for African-American males, unfortunately the stereotype is that you play sports,” he said. Executive Realness: 3 ‘Pose’ Stars on Dancing and Being Seen 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

It turned out that Mr. Hanks’s character, wearing a red Make America Great Again hat and with a thick Southern drawl, had way more in common with his fellow African-American contestants than anyone expected. ‘Saturday Night Live’: The Most Memorable Moments This Season 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

She, her husband, and their 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son will watch it with more than 90 other African-American families in a private viewing. ‘Black Panther’ Brings Hope, Hype and Pride 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

When Michael launched Capital Radio, I became Britain's first DJ playing African-American gospel music, with the Hallelujah programme, under the name Sam Scott. Michael Bukht obituary letters 2011-08-11T17:43:10Z

Growing up in Reno, I knew that most prospective jurors simply would have had little interaction with African-Americans. “Would we even be here if Julian Acox was white?” Race, self-defense and making of a murder charge 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

“How do you suggest Asian or African-American facial features without sliding into the stereotypes that have been used in unflattering portrayals in the past?” Japan and America Meet in “Big Hero 6” 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

Since 1994, she has written 34 novels, many of which are historicals and thus delve into unexplored pockets of the African-American experience which, by the way, is American history. Uncommon ground: Beverly Jenkins, diverse romance and American history the way it really happened 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

In the decades after Emancipation, the tradition became a business for many African-Americans, who brought fish fries with them as they migrated from the South to other parts of the country. Celebrating the Fish Fry, a Late-Summer Black Tradition 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Falker said the grouping highlighted the remembrance that, on the night of the raid that sparked the riots, the club was having a party for African-American soldiers returning from Vietnam. Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Like Beneatha, Hansberry was an intellectual in an era when women and African-Americans were denied full admission into that rarefied category. For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

“There’s an assumption of a homogeneous Muslim identity,” Ms. Rasheed said, “As a person who grew up in an African-American family and who is also Muslim, people forget that we exist at all.” A Sound-and-Art Show Fills a Void for Muslims in Brooklyn 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

In 1958, a small group of African-American dancers performed at the 92nd Street Y, and six decades later, that company is one of the largest and most popular modern dance troupes in the country. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

One is a story of marginal, southern African-American experience; the other a big, predominantly white “hooray for Hollywood”. Don't let that Oscars blunder overshadow Moonlight's monumental achievement 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Isaac Woodard, a young African-American soldier returning home from the Pacific war. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

At the time, Davis was looking for “a deep African-American grove, with a lot of emphasis on drums and rhythm,” as he put it in his autobiography. Pete Cosey, Guitarist With Miles Davis, Dies at 68 2012-06-06T17:54:46Z

Last week, she became the first African-American ballerina to dance Swan Lake at the Metropolitan Opera House. Misty Copeland Becomes First Black Principal Ballerina at American Ballet Theater 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

And most of that casting — 14 percent over all — went to African-American actors, boosted particularly by Danai Gurira’s “Eclipsed,” which is set in Liberia. Study Finds Increasing Diversity on Broadway 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

The small student population of African-Americans suffered harassment from their white classmates. White flight from reality: Inside the racist panic that fueled Donald Trump’s victory 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

“We finally made it. After 15 years, an African-American woman will be the one handing out the roses. Can you believe it?” Opiate for the masses: In selecting a black woman to woo, “The Bachelorette” does something it should have done years ago 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

In “Street Fight” he carried his camera into the election battle between the incumbent mayor of Newark, Sharpe James, and upstart Cory Booker, a contest between African-Americans that somehow became about race. Activist or Terrorist, Rendered in Red, White and Green 2011-06-08T18:48:01Z

“Sometimes, we see a shallow version of the African-American experience which is so deep and vast,” Ms. Parris said. Teyonah Parris, Katherine Waterston and Others Break Through 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“If there is a definition of an African-American composer, there isn’t a single profile, there isn’t a single mold,” Mr. Lewis said. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Being an African-American gay man, he says, imposes on him a responsibility to live his life “as if the world worked differently.” Exploring Afrofuturism in Film, Where Sci-Fi and Mythology Blur 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Reginald VelJohnson wasn't the first African-American actor to play a police officer, but he was among the earliest to play a starring role in uniform. A Black Cop on the Silver Screen 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

This week the Metropolitan Museum of Art will announce that it is hiring Dr. Murrell, who is African-American, for the newly created full-time position of associate curator for 19th and 20th century art. At the Entrenched Met Museum, the New Director Shakes Things Up 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

And so, 81 years after its founding, the company created Mahogany, its first year-round imprint dedicated to cards for the African-American community. What Makes a Greeting Card Black? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

They hail from a long line of successful African-Americans who were graduates of historically black colleges. How “The Cosby Show” duped America: The sitcom that enabled our ugliest Reagan-era fantasies 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Their goal, the professors said, is to “complicate the narrative,” to fill in gaps, show African-American people in all their dimensions and place present-day struggles for racial justice in a continuum. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

It doesn’t help that the police department associated with the protest, the Pasadena Police Department, is from one of the most lily-white suburbs of Houston, where less than 2% of residents are African-American. Beyoncé wins again: She faces protests for her politics, but like the Dixie Chicks and Sinead O’Connor, the right’s proven wrong again 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

“He was a disgrace to the entire family,” his father, Paul Coates, a onetime Black Panther who now runs an independent publishing company dedicated to out-of-print African-American books, recalled on Wednesday with a laugh. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Visceral’ Take on Being Black in America 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Throughout, similar panels explore the meaning of events for Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans and other marginalized people. A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The patterns riff on the ironwork of a former African-American slave from Charleston, South Carolina. David Adjaye on Designing a Museum That Speaks a Different Language 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Nor that 30 years after his murder more than half a million black men would converge on Washington DC to protest, in the language he made popular, the demonisation and criminalisation of African-American males. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable ? review 2011-04-10T05:00:01Z

I assumed the experience would be like that for an African-American kid at the theater, to see a show that was created by African-Americans, and I said, that’s why I can’t write it.” ‘The Wiz,’ With Added Street Cred, Heads for TV and Broadway 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

There’s Wesleyan Grove, settled by Methodist revivalists, and the historically African-American neighborhood in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard. The Summer Idyll of Free-Range Children Should Last All Year 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday night, for an episode about fatherhood in the African-American community, Wilmore skipped his normal first act entirely and went straight to the panel. Larry Wilmore Attempts to Be Seriously Funny 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Her ubiquity on radio and TV paved the way for other African-American singers and groups such as Mary J Blige and Destiny's Child, who became hugely popular. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

Nearly 20 years ago, he took part in a similar Detroit program for African-American composers. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

The play centers on a Jewish widow and her deepening friendship with her African-American chauffeur. 'Driving Miss Daisy' stays on Broadway into spring 2010-12-15T23:46:04Z

I wanted to major in theatre but ended up taking African-American studies and creative writing. Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z

Each year African-American women spend about $7.5 billion on beauty products, according to findings from Essence’s Smart Beauty panel in 2009. At the ‘Hairdresser’s Fashion Week,’ Celebrating Black Beauty 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Growing up in Millstone, Smith was one of only a handful of African-American students at his school. The Misunderstanding of J. R. Smith 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

“African-American prisoners did 99 percent of the fieldwork by hand,” he writes. The Stoic Philosopher of the Lockup 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Eberhardt, who is African-American, describes the difficulties she faced in her new school telling her white classmates apart. Justice Is Blind. Sometimes, So Is Prejudice. 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

And that’s exactly how the Shed officially opens on Friday: with the five-concert series “Soundtrack of America,” an exploration of the influence of African-American music on contemporary culture. The Shed Is Finally Open. Here’s What You Need to Know. 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The most truly horrific moment comes when an African-American dancer tells Sean that a handsome DJ is ogling her and he replies: "Maybe he's cuckoo for Coco Pops!" Burlesque ? review 2010-12-16T22:23:00Z

So did the experience of Garland’s grandmother, an Oklahoma teacher who volunteered to join the initial group of Caucasian educators transferred to an all African-American school, where she remained until retirement. ‘Divided We Fail’: The limits of desegregation 2013-01-09T23:58:30Z

There was plenty of information available on Hurston’s many African-American and white male friends and colleagues, but little on the white women she encountered in Harlem. Uncovering Strangers in a Strange Land 2013-09-03T16:40:40Z

Ms. Leigh’s fair sculptures follow on the heels of a major project: Last year she organized the Free People’s Medical Clinic in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with African-American nurses volunteering to help underserved neighborhoods. What Not to Miss at the Art Show at the Armory 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Very few members of the majority African-American population, though, were among the diners participating in the communal catharsis that unfolded in local restaurants in the years after the storm. How Katrina Changed Eating in New Orleans 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

White actors in blackface exploited common stereotypes of African-Americans, grossly exaggerating their dialect, fashion, dancing and singing. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

So here comes an African-American icon, who, somehow, is aligned with Trump, Tucker Carlson, etc. and also depicts Jews as imposters because he believes Blacks are the true Jews. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Festival Sundiata: African/African-American cultural arts, entertainment on four stages, art exhibit, vendors, children’s activities, food trucks, African dance workshops, history exhibit, Show and Shine Car Show, noon-8 p.m. Art, culture and cycling | Weekend Preview 2013-06-12T22:17:04Z

Many people, scholars included, do not believe that African-Americans would respond to crime in their neighborhoods by advocating or supporting “tough on crime” policies. “Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality”: Michael Fortner on race, the Clintons and the crime bill 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Of course Mr. Clemons was the band’s abiding African-American musician, who kept the E Street Band multiracial after the early departure of a keyboardist, David Sancious, also African-American. An Appraisal: The Big Man, Much More Than Springsteen?s Sideman 2011-06-19T21:17:51Z

When Jessye Norman was ten years old, she heard a recording of the great African-American contralto Marian Anderson singing Brahms’s “Alto Rhapsody.” The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

But it’s in good company with other children’s book illustrations, all color or black-and-white block prints by Minter, a Georgia-born African-American artist now living in Maine. Review: At Northwest African American Museum, works you’ll want to touch — but don’t 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

She was the first and remains the only African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

Hers is a journey that exists at the crossroads of so much contemporary analysis of the African-American experience. Morgan Jerkins Heads Down South in Search of Her Black Identity 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Or maybe, we wanted to offer a good impression of American tourists, in particular, African-Americans. Traveling while black created a stir in China 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The narrator begins to find his place in a community of African-Americans. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Shetterly says, “As a child . . . I knew so many African-Americans working in science, math and engineering that I thought that’s just what black folks did.” Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

Burnett is an independent filmmaker whose work, including “America Becoming,” has been praised for its portrayal of the African-American experience. "Hunger Games" actor Donald Sutherland to get lifetime Oscar 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

The haughty face of the white woman and the privileged look of the two children contrast poignantly with the weary expression of the African-American man consigned to the back of the streetcar. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Carnegie Hall, which in June named Robert Smith, the 53-year-old African-American chief of Vista Equity Partners, as its new chairman. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

Although the ag programs Brown studied welcome children of all races, Brown concluded, the emphasis on Black history helped African-American children thrive. Fresno’s Freedom School is changing the narrative on farming for black youth 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

ON his blog “Words of Wrath,” Wrath James White is an outspoken critic of Christianity and of African-Americans’ “zealous embracement of the God of our kidnapper, murders, slave masters and oppressors.” African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

“As an African-American,” he says, gently correcting me, “things like that have happened throughout our history. So it’s not like it’s something I don’t expect.” Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman: 'Everybody’s minds are opening up' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

It was the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, and the ensuing anger and despair, that incited the African-American ballet star Arthur Mitchell to create the company. 6 Things to Do at Home This Weekend 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wiley was born in 1977 to a Kenyan father and an African-American mother who met when they were students at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kehinde Wiley on Painting the Powerless. And a President. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

He was not only one of the first African-American guys on TV, he was also one of the first serious crossover artists with talent.” David Murray on His New Nat King Cole Album 2011-11-16T23:02:58Z

Police violence against African-Americans is in the news. Stephen Somerstein Photos in ‘Freedom Journey 1965’ 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

But her greatest exposure and acclaim have come with her starring role on “black-ish,” about an extended African-American family, whose third season begins on Wednesday. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

This was especially important for enslaved African-Americans, who invented group dances like the Ring Shout or the Cakewalk as subversive acts against racial oppression. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

A recent spike in hate crimes and the concerns of African-American audiences have justifiably raised the bar for films about racial reconciliation in America. A Pocket Guide to the Oscars’ Beefiest Controversies 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

“There” includes an entire subplot devoted to fried chicken, which the African-American member of the buddy duo has never eaten. ‘Green Book’ Review: A Road Trip Through a Land of Racial Clichés 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

“Do Not Resist,” winner of best documentary at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, examines the militarization of American police departments and the police oppression of African-Americans. At the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, a Lot of the Humans Are Women 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

Two other documentaries, "Quest" and "STEP," show the indirect impact of civil unrest and class and race struggles for African-American families. From Ferguson to Hulk Hogan, Sundance documentaries dig into headlines 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Her privileged life and her career as a prosecutor constitute a more complicated narrative than the one contemporary readers may expect of an African-American woman who lived during the first half of the 20th century. The Real-Life Heroine Who Inspired a Character on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

“It struck me that King’s vision was both the empowerment of African-Americans, the insistence on civil rights, but also the reconciliation of people who seemed so hard to reconcile,” he said. Cover Story: “The Dream of Reconciliation” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Whitaker recounts Pittsburgh’s role as a mecca for African-Americans in the mid-20th century — from figures like Billy Strayhorn and August Wilson to the local newspaper, The Courier, which covered it all. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

A recent example of such interaction was the significant role played by African nations and African-Americans in the global struggle against apartheid in South Africa. No easy walk to freedom: MLK’s anti-racism crusade needs to be renewed in today’s world 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

This was one of the uncomfortable undercurrents in Showtime’s “Weeds,” which had Mary-Louise Parker’s suburban housewife seem edgy and brave by going into business with African-American dealers. Smoke this show: “High Maintenance” and “Mary + Jane” deliver the mainstream weed experience 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Then he gathered his words and said the company represented not just dancers and choreographers but African-Americans as well. Robert Battle to Become Alvin Ailey Artistic Director 2010-04-28T21:59:00Z

They co-directed “The Roper,” a documentary short about an African-American calf roper in Louisiana who hopes someday to compete in the National Finals Rodeo. Northwest films make a splash at Sundance 2013 2013-01-30T23:39:52Z

As an African-American, I have struggled to understand why so many of my black brothers and sisters seem to prefer Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders. Hillary’s atrocious race record: Her stances over decades have been painful and wrong 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

Viall and Lindsay already made history this season when she became the first African-American woman in the history of “The Bachelor” to receive a coveted first-impression rose. Opiate for the masses: In selecting a black woman to woo, “The Bachelorette” does something it should have done years ago 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

He failed to acquire any of Homer’s Civil War paintings, and entirely bypassed his magnificent Reconstruction-era pictures of African-Americans. Art Review: The Impact of Winslow Homer, at the Clark Institute 2013-08-01T22:10:42Z

Mr. Cenac’s first season ends on Friday as he visits Cincinnati to cover an effort to forge an agreement between African-Americans in that city and its police department. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

At that time, chatter about who might become the first African-American or female president caused Mr. Gotti to opine that Mr. Giuliani could rightfully become the first “Italian president.” Victoria Gotti Is Back in a Big Way on Your Teensy Screens 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Until now, the museum hasn’t devoted any exhibition to African-American architects. How Can Blackness Construct America? 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

TV special, she sang a duet with African-American singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte. Downtown? Petula Clark goes Down Farm 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

But Bellomy, her father, hasn’t been portrayed by an African-American before. ‘The Fantasticks’ breaks a color barrier 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

He also thought colorblind casting was wrong, that it uprooted African-Americans from their own enriching context. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Later, after the publication of “Mockingbird” in 1960, his views softened, and he started campaigning for redistricting in the county to protect disenfranchised African-American voters, Mr. Shields said. Racism of Atticus Finch in ‘Go Set a Watchman’ Could Alter Harper Lee’s Legacy 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

A few years ago, the organization released data from its diversity study, which found that almost 60 percent of African-American children couldn’t swim, twice as many as their white counterparts. Michael Johnson’s gold medal in ignorance 2012-07-25T00:00:00Z

He added that he was especially moved by the way an African-American student responded at a Washington high school. ‘Brothers on the Line,’ Sasha Reuther’s Film on the U.A.W. 2012-10-09T22:34:03Z

Monday’s performance, subtitled “Live the Dream!,” was a reunion that commemorated 100 years of African-American theater music and dance with a special emphasis on “The Wiz,” which opened on Broadway 40 years ago next January. Honoring a Century of African-American Work on Broadway 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

“I’ve worked very hard with marketing people to include African-Americans,” she said. The New Season: Plays by Katori Hall, Lydia R. Diamond and Suzan-Lori Parks 2011-09-17T23:00:46Z

This portrait of the African-American playwright captures Hansberry’s emotional and political power and charts her major influence in theater and beyond. New in Paperback: ‘Looking for Lorraine’ and ‘Evolution’ 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

“With a younger readership at the top of his mind but an open invitation to all, McCarthy seems determined to draw attention to African-Americans’ ‘true strength’ and ‘worth.’ 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

As the editors of the African-American weekly Freedom’s Journal put it: “A woman, in a passion, is disgusting to her friends.” ‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought for the Vote 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Adjaye, most famous for designing the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture, described Ruby City as a “monolithic treasure box.” A Panorama of Design 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z

Yes, Lepore pays heed to Frederick Douglass and Cesar Chavez and the African-American lawyer and civil rights activist Pauli Murray, among others. As the News Cycle Lurches, Jill Lepore Offers a Long, Steady View of American History 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

He was defined more by what he was denied, and his early life demonstrates just how limited a path was available for any African-American with artistic ambitions. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Davis’s goal was to show African-Americans in “normal scenarios.” 20 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

There really weren't too many African-Americans that we could show in "First Man." Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

We also fit easily into the scene on Fulton Street, with its mostly African-American and Caribbean population. Who’s Allowed to Hold Hands? 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

"It is the principal repository in the world of literature and affairs for, by and about African-Americans, in particular, and Africans anywhere in the diaspora." NY Public Library getting Maya Angelou's papers 2010-10-26T23:26:00Z

Also black women earned 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees, and 65 percent of all doctorate degrees awarded to African-American students in the United States between 2009 and 2010. Black women are now the most educated group in the United States 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

She described Ms. Shange as “the first African-American female playwright I saw welcomed into the mainstream.” A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z

There was an intriguing near-compatibility between the Indian and African-American vocal styles, but it felt incidental: Mr. Brown was merely piecing together things he found compelling. Music Review: Jaimeo Brown at Drom 2013-05-16T21:48:50Z

Kroger Karen, named after the supermarket chain, blocked an African-American mother’s car so the woman couldn’t leave the market’s parking lot. A Brief History of ‘Karen’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

Although casting the principal roles with African-Americans may be a novelty, it’s not an issue. Theater Review: ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ at the Stephen Sondheim Theater 2013-04-24T02:00:06Z

But from an early age Raitt was an accomplished guitarist and singer who idolized African-American blues singers, particularly women. Mavis and Bonnie show powerful musical sisterhood at the Chateau 2012-09-09T19:46:04Z

Hughes, a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance whose work aimed to capture the whole of the African-American experience, was only 18 when he wrote that poem. Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

An informal survey of younger African-American women showed that brand awareness of Fashion Fair was faint at best. Skin Deep: Fashion Fair Deepens Its Coverage 2011-10-24T17:13:02Z

It represents the culmination of several strands of his work: history applied to the juxtaposition of high and pop art; symbols isolated, mixed and re-appropriated; the exploration of African-American culture. Art: Rashaad Newsome, Blending Hip-Hop and Heraldry 2011-10-20T20:08:10Z

The film is made by Steve James, who produced and directed the internationally acclaimed Hoop Dreams, which followed the plight of two African-American teenagers trying to become professional basketball players. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

A documentary about female African-American physicians who have had to battle discrimination. Holiday Movie Release Schedule 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Among his biggest initiatives: pressing the Georgia Historical Society to create historical markers for certain influential African-Americans. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Lupe takes on the role of teacher and cutup, preacher and street poet, a conflicted citizen who embraces the resilience of African-American culture even as he laments the community's penchant for self-inflicted wounds. Lupe Fiasco a voice of reason amid the violence 2012-12-27T22:15:00Z

In 1949, he broke a color barrier by being chosen as the only African-American in the band for the Groucho Marx show “You Bet Your Life.” Buddy Collette, Jazz Musician and Bandleader, Dies at 89 2010-09-28T04:00:00Z

Among the close to twenty contenders in the main competition is Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”, about an African-American police officer who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. Spike Lee and Godard go to Cannes, but Netflix cans Orson Welles 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The latter is an idea which emerges from African-American quarters. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

According to CinemaScore exit polls, the audience for “Mamma Mia!” was 83 percent female and 68 percent Caucasian; “The Equalizer 2” drew an audience that was 58 percent male and 53 percent Hispanic and African-American. Denzel Washington and ABBA Thrive at the Box Office 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

But it focuses mainly on the enslaved African-Americans who sought refuge there early in the Civil War, setting off an argument that led, ultimately, to the Emancipation Proclamation. Lessons Taught: Obama’s Legacy as a Historian 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

“With Rhythm Nation, Janet Jackson becomes arguably the first female African-American recording artist to form her own record label,” the company said in a statement. Janet Jackson to Release First Album in Seven Years 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

Fourth, police kill African-Americans at more than double their share of the population, a phenomenon Zimring painstakingly demonstrates is not explained by higher crime rates in black neighborhoods. Two Books Argue the Case for Police Reform From Within 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

They were found in 1982 on a sidewalk in front of a transient hotel in one of the city’s predominantly African-American neighborhoods. Art in Review: ?THE MEDICINE BAG? 2011-07-28T19:52:01Z

Those are the words of George Lucas, the executive producer of “Red Tails,” describing his whiz-bang action film about African-American fighter pilots in World War II on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” | 'Red Tails': ?Red Tails,? George Lucas?s Tale of Tuskegee Airmen - Review 2012-01-19T13:00:00Z

“At the time, we didn’t know the African-American side of it,” Mr. Westerlund said. From Harlem to Herrang: An Original Lindy Hopper Blooms in Sweden 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

A PBS profile of the African-American athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, thereby scuppering Hitler's plans to present the event as a spectacle of Aryan superiority. TV highlights 06/06/2012 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

I think it was very unusual for African-Americans at the time to be collecting art, but they were deeply invested in supporting the work of African-American artists. If These Walls Could Talk? They Do 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Just last week, Trump announced his surprise posthumous pardon of African-American boxing legend Jack Johnson at the behest of Hollywood legend Sylvester Stallone. Kim Kardashian to visit White House to discuss prison reform 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

Works from five African-American artists, two of them living, hit new highs at Christie’s and the Sotheby’s sale the night before. David Hockney Painting Sells for $90 Million, Smashing Record for Living Artist 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

Two decades ago, when the designer Stephen Burks was beginning what would become a renowned international career, there were virtually no African-American role models for him to look to. Opening the Doors of Design 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Her father was a pilot who fought in World War II with the Tuskegee Airmen and her mother   became the first African-American director of the State Board of Education. The Morning Muse of Television 2014-05-09T20:25:04Z

Part of his personal lore was that his father was a klansman, and he would tout that as his motivation for trying to align himself with African-Americans—and ultimately even identifying as African-American. Jim Jones, deadly white savior: The tragic legacy of the Jonestown massacre 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

Woods casts a much needed spotlight on the history of African-American troops in World War II, including the all-black 761st Tank Battalion, which took part in the Battle of the Bulge. When the Grown-Ups Stumble, These Kids Take Matters Into Their Own Hands 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

February is Black History Month; here are some venues highlighting work of African-American artists: Seattle-area art events celebrating Black History Month 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Comparable legislation failed in the House a year ago when a number of African-American Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the measure. Gay marriage bills in New Jersey, Maryland face hurdles 2012-02-16T13:45:14Z

Now it is an African-American police officer who's coming into children's television during a time when African-Americans who are on television are usually depicted as rioting in the inner cities. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

Before the Civil War, African-American slaves gave voice to their oppression through protest songs camouflaged as Biblical spirituals. The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

"Something that we kind of say in the film is that there were only so many slots for African-American singers at the time," Neville said about the 1970s. Backup singers take center stage in new documentary film 2013-06-14T19:30:42Z

It impressed me that some of the experiences between African-Americans and police that were going on back in the 1800s are still going on today.” Using Art to Help the Police Understand Racism 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Just even the little moments of, this is what the experience of being an African-American veteran of the Vietnam War would be like. Jennifer Weiner was right about sexism, media and women writers: "We were told we were lying" 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

An African-American man approaches Kevin in the visitors’ center and tells Kevin to come and see him because he “can help with your situation.” 'The Leftovers' Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: What if It's No Safer Here? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

There’s more secrecy among African-Americans about being gay, Mr. Culpepper said, adding, “They call it ‘on the down low.’” Film: Chris Rock Gives New Life to ?Death at a Funeral? 2010-04-09T15:31:00Z

But she also wrote about African-American food in Florida, where she lived, and that is what Frederick Douglass Opie will discuss at a lecture hosted by Culinary Historians of New York. John Besh’s Apron Supports a Cause 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

His new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” about an African-American detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, continues that tradition with one simple yet effective technique highlighting faces in a crowd. How Spike Lee Created Three Signature Visual Shots 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Cross writes that some of the hecklers were African-American students, unaware of Hendrix's music, which wasn't played on black radio, and that many thought his style of dress was inappropriate. Vision for Hendrix Park as vibrant as namesake 2011-08-15T04:01:24Z

His aim in starting the school was to convince elite Boston that popular music, with its strong African-American influences, was far more sophisticated than they thought. Mecca for modern music 2012-05-29T13:02:04Z

It was described by many as the largest public gathering of African-Americans since the March on Washington. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

His sense of necessity, even of inevitability, as a black artist to tell an African-American story stayed firm, while he insisted on his option to explore other subjects. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z

He considers that women in African-American romcoms are "painted as problematic and undesirable characters, only seeking helpmates to raise their child". Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

Lack of diversity is a problem in various art forms: the recent appointment of Misty Copeland as the first African-American principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater highlighted the homogeneity of classical dance. Review: Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet Are on a Mission 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

But for African-American girls like me, identification with Meg was not as easy. I Saw Myself in ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ But I Had to Work Hard. 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

It’s composed in 10-minute units, each made up of randomly sorted 30-second clips related to African-American life, lifted from online videos and visual blogs, including home movies, video diaries, police webcams and advertisements. Review: Photography’s Shifting Identity in an Insta-World 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

After the crash, as she struggled with memory loss, her work turned more subjective and overtly political, grappling with, among other issues, the racism she faced as an African-American. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

For others, the family’s loss of the house speaks to the difficulties faced by African-Americans in owning property and their cultural heritage. Battling to Save James Baldwin’s Home in the South of France 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Secrets abound in this story set in a primarily African-American Memphis megachurch. TV picks for March 15: ‘Greenleaf’ returns 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the influx of expensive hotels and tourist shops has driven up the cost of living in Charleston and sent the working class — many of whom are African-American — to less expensive parts of the region. Charleston Tourism Is Built on Southern Charm. Locals Say It’s Time to Change. 2020-08-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hart will become one of just a handful of African-American hosts in the show’s 91-year history. Kevin Hart Will Host the 2019 Oscars 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

From the Jeffersons to Will Smith One culture exhibition is devoted to African-Americans’ influence on film, television, theater and dance. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

But in America in the 1960s, and especially in the South, African-Americans lived out their lives as second-class citizens. Lessons in resistance from MLK, the “conservative militant” 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Despite their deep roots, the recipes—even the oldest ones—feel fresh and modern, a testament to the essentiality of African-American gastronomy to all of American cuisine. The Best Cookbooks of 2019 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It was revolutionary in its way: that an African-American woman could embody that archetype as seamlessly as white women have in the past – at least in public. The Voice of America: Whitney Houston (1963-2012) 2012-02-12T03:38:37Z

The “Moby-Dick” surge seems to be attributable to African-American readers, who chose it as their second-favorite title, the only demographic segment to do so. ArtsBeat: Whither Dan Brown? Poll Lists Americans’ Favorite Books 2014-04-30T17:25:34Z

No formal festival — like those of recent seasons, when Berlin, Japan, China and African-American music were celebrated — is planned. With More Than Concerts, Carnegie Widens Its Playing Field 2011-01-19T17:27:46Z

And all this contrasts with a slowly emerging subplot involving the underfunded local public school, where African-American teachers find themselves accused of denying resources to the poorer, mostly Hispanic students. In ‘American Crime’ Season 2, a Rape Accusation Raises Troubling Questions 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile a neurotic African-American woman is trying to find a child to adopt. My new film policy: random fandom 2010-07-15T21:33:00Z

And we see how their talent, and the forces of African-American blues and white gospel, contributed to the earthy, infectious rockabilly spirit of early rock 'n' roll Phillips captured on influential recordings that still delight. 'Million Dollar Quartet' brings rock icons to life 2012-05-16T20:22:04Z

“People of color are not as represented here,” Williams, who is half Persian, half African-American, told me. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

After the Whitney Biennial opened in March, some African-American artists called for the removal, even the destruction, of “Open Casket,” Dana Schutz’s painting based on the famous photographs of Emmett Till’s mutilated corpse. 10 Cultural Battles That Ruled 2017 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

Both events — the systemic crackdown on the political activities of black activists and the nascent war on drugs — would have a profound effect on the life of Tupac, along with millions of other African-Americans. In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Imagine a family tree, and you hear from when the boats arrive, and African-American music starts happening all over the country, right up to now.” The Shed Opens With a Purpose. And a Party. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

But many non-Jewish whites also believed that Jews shared traits with the most stigmatized race of all: African-Americans. Donald Trump, Jews and the myth of race: How Jews gradually became “white,” and how that changed America 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

It drew inspiration not from Trudeau, but from Marxism, socialism and the African-American civil rights, Algeria’s decolonization and women’s liberation movements. Canada's LGBTQ coin glosses over radical struggles: When did gay liberation come to mean equality? 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

“People are saying, ‘I never understood why African-Americans responded the way they did to the verdict; now I get it,’” Mr. Edelman said. ‘O.J.: Made in America’: A Documentary Movie or a Mini-Series? 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

“We realized our real prime time starts at 10, and our audience loves to laugh. It felt like the perfect moment to add the voice of an African-American female to the conversation.” On ‘The Rundown,’ Robin Thede Is Filling a Void in Late-Night Talk 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

“When we get even a scrap of a story about an individual, it’s so valuable,” Ms. Doyle said of the African-American side of the property’s history. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

We looked around and didn’t see African-American writers represented.” ArtsBeat: 'American Slavery Project' Focuses on Black Playwrights 2011-02-15T21:30:17Z

If so, it’s because 26-year-old Fatimah Warner presents so many intertwined personas: family member, woke African-American woman, lover, boaster, worshiper, Chicagoan, Los Angeles transplant, rapper, singer, poet. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

This was despite the presence of a black woman as the president of the Academy, and a well-reviewed biopic of Martin Luther King from an African-American director. Black films matter: why Chi-Raq and Beast of No Nation are game-changers 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

He asks, “Was that where they kept their African-American population — in the county jail?” Books of The Times: ?Sometimes There Is a Void? ? By Zakes Mda ? Review 2012-01-05T21:44:22Z

There’s that amazing story about the way you started doing “The Jeffersons,” after a couple of African-American radicals people kind of burst into your office to tell you that “Good Times” was racist or whatever. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

As one HBO executive told me: "Shows that feature African-Americans don't sell foreign." Katrina and all that jazz 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

Michael Benjamin Washington is Bernard, whose status as an African-American is the butt of the show’s nastiest humor. Review: Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto Enter Sniping in ‘The Boys in the Band’ 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

At the time, disco was mostly relegated to the African-American and gay communities. How deep is our love for "Saturday Night Fever," which changed how John Travolta and disco were seen 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

The collision exposed a deep vein of racial bias and was a blatant example of the routine humiliations in the daily life of African-Americans. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

“You’re running for president and you want black people to vote for you?” said an African-American woman in attendance said. Mayor Pete has a problem: How can black voters trust he'll fight for them? 2019-06-29T04:00:00Z

He recently played the pioneering African-American actor Ira Aldridge in the play Red Velvet. Critics praise 'enthralling' Othello 2013-04-24T11:46:17Z

Kwanzaa, the African-American holiday, focuses on community and culture, and this five-day festival will immerse young museum visitors in both. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

Yet they are specifically informed by both the political whiplash of the Obama to Trump transition and the deaths of African-American men and women in encounters with the police. How These Black Playwrights Are Challenging American Theater 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

In addition a number of communities, including African-Americans and Hasidic Jews, see fur as an important part of their cultural heritage, one on which lawmakers should not be permitted to impose their own voter-pandering morality. The California Fur Ban and What It Means for You 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Also endangered, according to the trust, is the Mountain View Black Officers’ Club at Fort Huachuca in Arizona, which was built in 1942 specifically for African-American officers but now faces demolition. ArtsBeat: Astrodome, Vineyard Lighthouse on List of Most Endangered Places 2013-06-19T12:12:06Z

Those variations reflect the fluidity of African-American language through the years, she said, and the power of perception. A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z

Mr. Baker promised his vast archive on early African-American entertainment to the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Mr. Hunnings said. Jean-Claude Baker, ‘Son’ of Josephine Baker, Is Remembered 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

A shy, sensitive African-American boy grows up in a poor, crime-infested Miami enclave. Preview: Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney makes NW debut at Seattle Rep 2011-01-27T00:44:04Z

The British actor’s comic wings are clipped in this sincere but unwieldy film about an abrasive radio personality whose heretofore-unknown African-American teenage niece shows up at his fancy New York City apartment. ‘Hot Air’ Review: A Right-Wing Radio Host Learns to Love Again 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

African-Americans made up roughly 60 percent of the opening-weekend audience, he said. ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Flops at the Box Office Despite Rave Reviews 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

He also offers his conversation with Monica, an African-American woman returning to Tupelo for a funeral. Review: Gabriel Kahane Finds Inspiration in Strangers on a Train 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

He was an early civil-rights activist and worked extensively in the African-American community to save and give worth to black music. 'Alan Lomax,' the man who preserved America's folk music 2011-01-12T22:51:03Z

This is a show with an African-American family. Kenya Barris on ‘Black-ish,’ Shonda Rhimes and His Favorite Shows 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

You are the first African-American writer and the first woman of color to win a Hugo for best novel. N. K. Jemisin on Diversity in Science Fiction and Inspiration From Dreams 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

The notable exception is Isa’s reading aloud the names of slain African-American men and women, which he does less with stately solemnity than wounded wonder. Review: The Unspeakable Pain of an African-American Afterlife 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

There she focused on stone carvings rooted in her own experience — sensitive portraits of African-American women and children. Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor With Eye on Social Issues, Dies at 96 2012-04-04T02:45:28Z

Williams was the first African-American Broadway headliner and the most popular recording artist before 1920. Library of Congress Declares 'The Dude' and Ferris Bueller Part of America's National Heritage 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Kaufman was a street poet, an African-American surrealist and one of the original Beats — he founded a magazine with Allen Ginsberg. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

And my personal pick… Kasi Lemmons Yes, it would be groundbreaking/cool/etc. if the reins to today’s biggest new franchise were handed off to an African-American woman. The “man crisis,” continued 2012-05-31T00:00:00Z

It’s interesting to imagine an alternative history of African-American fiction in which this wild, satirical and pathbreaking feminist picaresque caught the ride it deserved in the culture. Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“I fully understand that eyes are on me as the first African-American master blender in history, and I embrace that responsibility — but I don’t focus on it.” In the Male World of Whiskey, More Women Are Calling the Shots 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Many of the best African-American actors repeatedly find themselves in worthy but grave narratives built around slavery and civil rights — prestige parts, yes, but shouldn’t the possibilities be wider? Octavia Spencer Cracks a Few Hollywood Equations 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

When Moses wakes, these two young African-American men contemplate, with a lot of profanity, the aimlessness of their lives while trying to dodge stray bullets. Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

“It embodies the profoundly deep and textured expression of the African-American experience during a complex time in this country’s history and a landmark moment in the evolution of the Met,” Mr. Campbell said. For Met Museum, a Major Gift of Works by African-American Artists From the South 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Ms. McNally sat down at a reading table across from the African-American history section, near children’s books recommended by local teachers. Up Close: Sarah McNally of McNally Jackson Books in Manhattan 2011-10-12T22:41:28Z

Mr. Arnett, loquacious and passionate about what he called the vernacular art of African-Americans, rankled some people in the art world. Bill Arnett, Collector and Promoter of Little-Known Black Art, Dies at 81 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Jackie Robinson’s bat and jersey, Althea Gibson’s racket Like Robinson, Althea Gibson broke barriers in sports, becoming the first African-American woman to win a Wimbledon tennis championship. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

African-Americans were allowed to train as pilots in the segregated Tuskeegee Airmen. African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

As you might imagine, the threat of the specific type of racial bias that associates African-Americans with dangerousness and criminality is particularly harmful in the context of self-defense. “Would we even be here if Julian Acox was white?” Race, self-defense and making of a murder charge 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

There’s no question that the visibility of African-American artists in the mainstream is way higher now than it’s ever been. ‘Black Art: In the Absence of Light’ Reveals a History of Neglect and Triumph 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

One young African-American woman thanked the first lady for instilling confidence. WATCH: Michelle Obama appears on “Tonight Show,” leaves people in tears 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

It was a chance encounter with Tompkins at a flea market in the Oakland, Calif., area in 1985 that convinced Leon, a psychotherapist, to dedicate his life to collecting quilts by African-American artists. African-American Art Quilts Find a Museum Home in California 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

By the time the movie debuted in 1985, Walker and the filmmakers were ill-prepared to defend themselves against accusations that the movie reproduced vicious stereotypes about African-American men. Can an Abuser Make Amends? ‘The Color Purple’ Points the Way 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

These films, Lee said, portrayed stereotypes or used racial slurs against African-Americans. Spike Lee accuses Italian critics of double standard 2011-01-19T04:01:00Z

Some fans of the show were angry about the closing, suggesting that the producers should have been better prepared, or should have supported it for longer given its significance to African-American theatrical history. Decision to Close ‘Shuffle Along’ Is Debated Along Broadway 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

A revealing history of African-Americans, many of them little known, who worked in government during the New Deal and their struggles to bring about social justice. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

This documentary weaves four stories together to paint a portrait of the troubles plaguing African-Americans in the South, mainly in New Orleans. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Schitt’s Creek’ and ‘What You Gonna Do’ 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Since mainstream disco regularly denied its origins among gay and African-American artists, the remix now seems a coup for the genre’s secret history. Waking the Spirit of a Disco Innovator 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

A new Green Book would also be a way to support African-American businesses. "You needed the Negro Motorist Green Book more in the North and the West" 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Look at, for example, African-Americans they made a lot of progress, but we still have a lot of racism. Muslim-American comics after 9/11: "I thought comedy was over, but it was more important than ever" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

African-American viewers were particularly concerned that the show not be a throwback to behavior considered stereotypical and not a representation of the diversity and sophistication of African-American lifestyle and cooking.” Books of The Times: What Africa Brought to the Table 2011-01-24T18:22:55Z

But a sitting president— and the first African-American chief executive, to boot — was the Big One. Starring on Broadway, Obama and Alexander Hamilton 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z

The museum devoted most of its 2019 show to work by black artists, noting that African-Americans make up more than 60 percent of the city’s population. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

“As an African-American woman, the struggles are so similar,” she said. Broadway Training, Gangnam Style 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

Larry Wilmore, whose “The Nightly Show” has been in the old “Colbert Report” spot on Comedy Central for about three weeks, is currently the only African-American late-night comedy host on television. Larry Wilmore Attempts to Be Seriously Funny 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Thomas Greene, one of two central characters, is an African-American piano player from Baltimore. ‘Night in Shanghai’: star-crossed lovers in a glittering city 2014-03-12T20:39:27Z

In 1994, he was elected to the board of the Whitney, where he said he never felt like a token, despite being the board’s only African-American. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

By comparison, Harlem's famous Apollo Theater first opened as a burlesque theater in 1914, and African-Americans were not allowed inside. DC's historic Howard Theatre opens new chapter 2012-04-12T16:34:09Z

In December civil rights groups, including the Austin N.A.A.C.P., unveiled a plaque in East Austin memorializing three African-Americans who were lynched in the area in 1894. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

The site also noted the political benefits: that she is African-American and religious, appealing to two groups with whom same-sex marriage is not universally popular. The Morning Muse of Television 2014-05-09T20:25:04Z

Like millions of helpless white people every day, Marley begins having visions of a cool African-American as God. Sheryl Crow’s tumor damage control 2012-06-06T15:40:00Z

This generous, fascinating documentary about the careers of backup singers, most of them African-American women, seeks to rewrite the history of pop music by focusing attention on voices at once marginal and vital. Movie Review: ‘20 Feet From Stardom’ Explores World of Backup Singers 2013-06-13T23:57:32Z

And African-Americans also want immediate relief from the crime in their communities. “Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality”: Michael Fortner on race, the Clintons and the crime bill 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

He has received three National Book Award nominations and won many prizes, including a lifetime achievement honor from the American Library Association and five Coretta Scott King awards for African-American fiction. Walter Dean Myers, 73, a hero to young readers 2011-03-04T14:51:12Z

His frescoes were intended to be critical of the first president, and by extension the country’s treatment of African-Americans and Native Americans. San Francisco School Board Votes to Hide, but Not Destroy, Disputed Murals 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

This show of three African-American artists creates a solid counternarrative on general history, art history, black identity and gender identity. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Smith, the artistic director, is one of the few African-Americans leading a New York theater. The Flea Will Begin Paying All Its Artists 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Are you suggesting were she not African-American, her behavior — whatever that was — would be all right?’ ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

If someone wishes to be referred to as African-American or Latina or transgender or whatever it is, that is respectful. How Janeane Garofalo Knew 'Wet Hot American Summer' Was a Cult Hit 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

This November, in Denver, Leslie Herod became the first gay African-American to be elected to the state’s House of Representatives. Gay America’s Harrowing, Heartening Year 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Both focused early on African-American portraiture precisely because it is so little represented in Western art history. Obama Portraits Blend Paint and Politics, and Fact and Fiction 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

In Green-Wood, African-American bodies were laid to rest in seven lots along the southwestern edge of the vast grounds. Unearthing Black History at Green-Wood Cemetery 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

My witches' work is inspired by British folklore and the African-American magical practises of hoodoo. Ways to catch a witch 2012-06-13T11:36:48Z

The audience that needs to see and hear the stories of African-American struggles and contributions "is large enough for all of us," said Patricia Wilson Aden, president and chief executive of the Philadelphia museum. National black history museum could spur interest locally 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

He was fashionable and a global superstar, as well as being someone who was just as inspirational to Africans as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King had been to African-Americans. Family life 2012-07-13T23:09:32Z

Ms. Thomas was a college student in Jackson, Miss., when a white transit police officer shot Oscar Grant III, an unarmed, 22-year-old African-American man, on a train platform in Oakland, Calif., in 2009. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

In the lobby, I spotted an elegantly dressed African-American woman. Jacqueline Woodson on Africa, America and Slavery’s Fierce Undertow 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

By 1964, about 91 percent of the neighborhood's residents were African-American, and the temple was home to the Friendship Baptist Church. Lawndale religious icon set for demolition 2011-12-23T02:22:00Z

If all goes well, it may become a commercial crop in America, and a menu staple as diners develop a deeper appreciation for African-American food. Finding a Lost Strain of Rice, and Clues to Slave Cooking 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

Quincy Jones, who helped choose her to perform in “Soundtrack of America,” the African-American music series that opened the Shed last April, hails her as “an absolute tap dancing star” who “knows her roots.” A Tap Dancer’s Place: After the Horn Player, Before the Drummer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

What are your thoughts about those who say that British actors shouldn’t play African-American roles? Cynthia Erivo Is One Step Closer to the EGOT Club 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The work itself commands attention, but so does author Lowery Stokes Sims’s curation of it, organizing the material by themes common to the African-American experience, from political aspiration to societal exclusion. A New Book on African-American Art from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

And yet, this seemed to fuel his work — and the anger in it — toward greater heights, forging a brand of African-American history painting that addressed everything from cultural figures to black policemen. ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ at the Brant Shows His Bifurcated Life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Suitland program, which began as a magnet curriculum to comply with court-ordered desegregation in Prince George’s County, Md., is today largely African-American. Against Tough Odds, a High School Arts Program Fosters Success 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

Two young African-American skaters told them skating wasn’t dead — it just went underground. Rolling in the deep: HBO film looks at roller skate culture 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

He talked about American music, jazz, blues, hip-hop, and the achievements of African-American writers. On Slavery’s Doorstep in Ghana 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, she appears nowhere in the canon of African-American literature. “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

African-American women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the United States, and yet little more than one- half of 1 percent currently obtain start up funding for their businesses or ideas. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

I can connect to the other, because it has so many parallels to my own life — just by being a female, African-American artist in today's music industry. Music's key trends in 2010 2010-12-04T06:00:00Z

Her guiding idea – white country music, folk and chanson, all refuelled with African-American influences – has been her calling card since the mid-90s. This week's new live music 2013-04-27T05:00:19Z

African-American history is a natural focus in a season that coincides with the half-century anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The New Season 2013-09-08T16:55:20Z

And then for dark-skinned African-American women, it's even more difficult. Smooth operator 2012-02-12T00:04:04Z

A quick “Scramble board” segment between songs had dancers reveal the names of historic African-American figures. An Appraisal: Don Cornelius, Smooth Operator on Behalf of Soul 2012-02-01T22:59:47Z

Even though the movies take pains to insist that the African-American character is as much a flesh-and-blood person as the white hero, the relationship is that of a master and servant. The offensive movie cliche that won't die 2010-09-14T13:01:00Z

Publishers, not surprisingly, tend to disagree with the idea that African-American writers are being overlooked now. New Wave of African Writers With an Internationalist Bent 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

He was Jackie Robinson, the first major league African-American baseball player, in the by-the-books drama 42, as well as Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, in the dreary Marshall. Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman: 'Everybody’s minds are opening up' 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Will African-Americans ever trust police to treat them fairly? One year after Michael Brown’s death, the lessons of Ferguson still haunt us: Even when police violence is caught on video, “most of the nation still doesn’t really care” 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

In an interview with the Observer, Peele admitted that he didn’t originally want to cast a British actor in the lead “because this movie was so much about representation of the African-American experience”. Samuel L Jackson criticises casting of black British actors in American films 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This was at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance - a cultural, social, and artistic explosion amongst the African-American middle class, which had strong links to the civil rights movement. Harlem's Apollo Theater turns 80 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

It encompasses a great deal of African-American — and therefore American — life and invites a full spectrum of emotional responses. Noah Davis Is Gone; His Paintings Continue to Hypnotize 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

In 1915, The Birth of a Nation celebrated America's reconstruction after the Civil War with African-Americans played by white actors in blackface, together with a sympathetic attitude to the Ku Klux Klan. Attempting the Impossible: why does western cinema whitewash Asian stories? 2013-01-02T13:48:00Z

“I was struck,” she said of the performance, “by how different it was from so many of the other representations of African-American women that I had seen from that period.” Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z

Now she makes paintings that communicate the isolation and pain of the African-American female experience. Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

“I am sick of austerity,” Yaasiyn Muhammad, a teacher of African-American history at Central High School told a crowd of around 150 teachers gathered on a November Saturday in the Old First Reformed church. “11,000 smart, committed teachers can change the world”: A group of working Philadelphia teachers is looking to upset the status quo of the teachers union 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Jacqueline Woodson was shortlisted in the young people's literature category for "Brown Girl Dreaming," a book about an African-American girl growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. Pulitzer Prize winners among National Book Award finalists 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Most African-American women in the South, like African-American men, were blocked by poll taxes, literacy tests and other racial barriers, while Native Americans and Asian immigrants were largely excluded from citizenship entirely. The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

They confounded notions of “black” art as being a fixed style or set of ideas and did so in an era when African-American artists were being pressured to cast their work in clear ethno-political terms. Art Review: Romare Bearden at Studio Museum, Schomburg and the Met 2011-12-08T23:44:36Z

All minority groups have had that happen, but not as often and in as many ways as African-Americans. “President Obama has been a cottage industry for racist imagery and racist memorabilia”: Why understanding the history of Jim Crow is still essential 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Rock, who is white, said Monday that his track record of financial and charitable support for Detroit, a largely African-American city, speaks for itself. Singer Kid Rock: Outcry over headlining new arena is political hatchet job 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

Though many assumed she was black, Snow never claimed African-American ancestry. Phoebe Snow, Who Sang 1975 Hit 'Poetry Man,' Dies 2011-04-26T14:51:32Z

A Venerable Survivor Farish Street was the center of African-American life in Jackson during the Jim Crow era, but in recent decades the street has nearly emptied out. 36 Hours in Jackson, Miss. 2013-05-30T17:27:31Z

The wall, now demolished, spurred a community movement of artists on the South Side — and others nationwide — to express the hopes and fears of African-Americans through the mural art form. Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright: A Broader View of Art in Chicago 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. German, who deems herself a “citizen artist,” is interested in art as a form of healing and protection, especially for African-Americans. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“To see someone from the African-American community who is able to do that is really inspiring.” Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

And “A Ballerina’s Tale,” from Nelson George, takes a look at the process of the dancer Misty Copeland, the first African-American female soloist at American Ballet Theater in two decades. Patricia Arquette and Mary J. Blige Starring in Films Added to Tribeca Festival Lineup 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

The Atlanta of “Atlanta” is above all a layer cake of African-American life, bourgeois and street, hipster and old school. Review: In FX’s ‘Atlanta,’ a Princeton Dropout Works the Angles Back Home 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Faith is one of the most prominent African-American artists and is known for her work with children as an educator,” Ms. Hoffman said, adding of Ms. Baxter, “Ellen piggy-backed on that.” Faith Ringgold Withdraws Support From Harlem 2012-02-13T00:44:24Z

And now, teaching her select group of young African-Americans at a small private school in Virginia, it is Shakespeare she chooses to explain as exotic. The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice 2013-03-24T00:06:34Z

WHO SHE IS A brassy African-American stage, screen and TV actress who won a special Tony Award for playing the title role in the all-black production of “Hello, Dolly!” in 1968. Charles Busch’s Hollywood References in ‘The Tribute Artist’ 2014-02-26T22:53:57Z

But after hearing their postelection fears about President-elect Donald J. Trump, who had threatened or insulted immigrants, Muslims, Mexicans, African-Americans, women and the disabled, Professor Katari recast the Sunday afternoon class as a bolstering interlude. Yoga? Weaving? Vigils? The Search for Postelection Calm 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

African-Americans as well as couples of two different races were not arguing over the importance or meaning of marriage but rather fighting for their civil right to participate in this noble institution. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z

"Joe and I talked about it at great length - what if he was an African-American and how interesting it would be," Bendis said. Marvel: New Ultimate Spider-Man boasts big changes 2011-08-02T13:27:16Z

Curtis-Newton's casting scheme actually improves the script: spoken in Southern-inflected, African-American cadence, the dialogue sounds less stilted, the humor is looser, funnier. Review: A thoughtful, thought-provoking 'All My Sons' at Intiman 2011-03-28T16:52:06Z

In New York City, an 11-member task force is currently evaluating "the feasibility of creating a museum about New York City's African-American civil rights history." "African American history is American history": Museum exhibits respond to Black Lives Matter 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z

In antebellum America, both Native Americans and African-Americans were “subjects but not citizens.” ‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s a movie that helps redefine the perceptions around African-American masculinity. From House Of Cards to Moonlight, why Mahershala Ali is having a moment 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

It filtered African-American history through the lens of science fiction, projecting a utopia in which race and gender were fluid, and existing social inequities corrected or transcended. Review: A Nuyorican Artist’s Career Survey: Loud, Proud and Timely 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

African-American children, in particular, have both historically, and in the present, been denied the luxury of “racial innocence.” Right-wing delusions about “anti-white propaganda”: Why they’re wrong about shielding children from the truth about racism 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Pinn is a professor of religious studies at Rice University and an outspoken expert on African-American humanism. 5 religious leaders who became outspoken atheists 2013-03-27T12:44:00Z

The photograph was intended by my grandmother to be a picture of her grandchildren and daughter-in-law, but the moment belongs to the African-American girl in the servant’s uniform. Slavery is America’s pre-existing condition 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

A white author named Charles Silberman expressed frustration that the African-Americans were dissatisfied by the meager progress made. The Empty Gesture of Red Carpet Protest 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Besides producing a dozen volumes of poetry, Ms. Clifton wrote many well-received books of prose and verse for children that centered on the African-American experience. 2010-02-17T05:56:00Z

I wish for everyone’s sake that it seemed less momentous for the future of African-American women in ballet. Dance This Week: Misty Copeland, the Royal Ballet and Ashton’s ‘Cinderella’ 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

As the babies’ struggle for breath is vividly evoked, so in retrospect is Hattie’s hopeful exodus from the Deep South to the Northeast, as part of a historic and wrenching African-American Diaspora. ‘The Twelve Tribes of Hattie’: the scars of a mother’s battles 2013-01-31T23:00:50Z

Historically, accounts of the lynching of African-Americans appeared in regional newspapers but seldom made their way into the North-based mainstream press. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Baldwin said it made African-Americans sound “ludicrously false and affected, like antebellum Negroes imitating their masters.” Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

More importantly, it was historic in terms of African-American cinema. Don't let that Oscars blunder overshadow Moonlight's monumental achievement 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Curious to know more, she set off on an intellectual investigation that became an aesthetic revelation, as she searched for Harris’s traces in the Hollywood histories of African-Americans, in biographies, online, on YouTube and DVD. Just a Maid in Movies, but Not Forgotten 2011-04-22T23:23:02Z

It was Ezra Pound, calling himself Brer Rabbit, who gave Eliot the nickname Old Possum, another moniker borrowed from Joel Chandler Harris’s “Uncle Remus” collection of African-American folklore. ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The percussive dance style known as stepping — a thundering blend of stomps, claps and shouts — began at African-American fraternities and sororities, though its roots date from the early 20th century. 10 Dance Performances to See in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

April, the Turtles’ human friend, will not suddenly be African-American, as envisioned at one point. ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Retooled for Nickelodeon 2012-09-26T18:35:17Z

Malcolm X’s expulsion from France was unusual; France had long prided itself on providing refuge to African-American artists and radicals, if only to show that the republic was colorblind and immune to America’s racial ills. The Music of Malcolm X 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

It was a history-making night for female artists, and a huge one for African-American actors. ‘Kinky Boots’ and ‘Vanya’ Win Top Tonys 2013-06-10T04:10:09Z

They are part of the Great Migration that brought waves of African-Americans from the terror of the South to the promise of Northern cities. Buzz Over Ayana Mathis’s ‘Twelve Tribes of Hattie’ 2012-12-10T22:42:33Z

“It was jarring that arguably one of the most well-known brands in the world was created, in part, by a slave,” said Ms. Weaver, 40, an African-American real estate investor and author. When Jack Daniel’s Failed to Honor a Slave, She Stepped In 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

The novel concerns the fate of Coleman Silk, an African-American professor who presents himself as white and Jewish throughout his academic career. ArtsBeat: Philip Roth Goes Public With Fact Check of Wikipedia 2012-09-07T21:55:36Z

No matter the methodology, the night ultimately belonged to “12 Years a Slave” – only the third time in Oscar history that winners in three categories were African-American. The Carpetbagger: Will We Be Calling It the ’12 Years’ Effect? 2014-03-04T16:55:26Z

In the longer historical context of African-Americans in the armed forces, Johnson would not be alone. Dallas and Baton Rouge tragedies: A reminder of the troubled history of black veterans in America 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

They are all of unidentified African-Americans, young and old, with now untraceable lives in pre-civil-rights-era America. Art in Review: LORNA SIMPSON: ?Gathered? 2011-06-30T21:45:27Z

This past June, she retired from teaching full-time at Yale, where she was a professor of African-American studies. An Intimate History of the British Empire 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The reawakening of Black Wall Street is a movement fueled by dozens of artists, black-owned businesses and philanthropists to celebrate the African-American community’s accomplishments while mourning its losses. ‘Through Art, I Hope That We Can Make One Tulsa’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

Squint a little, however, and the finer print farther down the poster reveals another vital expression of contemporary African-American popular music: a showcase of some of today’s finest and funkiest Detroit house producers and D.J.s. Detroit House Music Takes a Swaggering Step Out of the Darkness 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

The backdoor pilot introducing the character opens this statement of purpose/disclaimer: “42% percent of African-American women have never been married. This is one black woman’s story…not meant to represent all black women.” Can an ambitious black woman "have it all"? "Being Mary Jane" finds the answer in the end 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

In the North, which he thought to be even more hostile than the South, Thomas found that world view in the black nationalism that inspired many African-Americans of the era. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

And, of course, France has had a century-old love affair with African-American culture. The Music of Malcolm X 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

After Meriwether Hunter, an unemployed African-American mechanic and World War II veteran, saves Gabriel Haberlin’s life, the 12-year-old tries to return the favor by getting him a job at his father’s garage. When the Grown-Ups Stumble, These Kids Take Matters Into Their Own Hands 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z

"Many of the definitions were bothersome, if for no other reason that they didn't seem to include me," added Myers, who is African-American and an Army veteran. The story behind the new book 'We Are America' 2011-05-28T03:13:05Z

“So the Voting Rights Act isn’t about equality, it’s about giving African-Americans an unfair advantage,” he said. For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

African-Americans are represented among the show’s writers and animators, according to a spokeswoman, adding that voice actors are ethnic matches to their roles, except for one instance in which an African-American plays a white character. Disney’s ‘Doc McStuffins’ Connects With Black Viewers 2012-07-30T14:53:42Z

Then again, “Lysistrata,” easily Aristophanes’ most performed play, has always spurred debate, and “Chi-Raq” could be seen as part of a historical tradition of African-American adaptations that have set off unanticipated controversies. In Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq,' It's Women vs. Men, With a Vengeance 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

“I also was very excited about giving the two Russian actors of color a chance to play African-Americans.” Road Back to Russia, Paved With a Play 2011-08-21T03:30:33Z

Stacie Scott Turner: The only African-American D.C. housewife also seems to be the only completely sane D.C. housewife, turning the traditional Find-Me-A-Crazy-Black-Woman-To-Set-Off reality casting formula on its head. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z

For the African-Americans in Wilkerson's narrative and for many of the UK and US's Dalits, migration was an act of secession from an oppressive social order. Recognising caste discrimination will improve life for Britain's Dalits 2010-12-21T15:34:38Z

In his speech, he drew a connection between the escape of Jewish slaves from Egypt in the Book of Exodus and the fate of African-Americans fighting for equality. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 8 Places in New York to Remember His Legacy 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

In 1983, Ms. Williams, now 52, became the first African-American to win the Miss America pageant. Vanessa Williams Receives ‘Unexpected’ Apology at Miss America 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

The fruit of that 90s creative flowering was a generation of African-American performers who gained real Hollywood power: the power to take leading roles, to win awards and, ultimately, to get movies greenlit. Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

During her birth in Augusta, Ga., her mother needed a cesarean operation, but since the hospital didn’t allow African-Americans in their main units, the procedure took place in an unsanitary storage room. Sharon Jones, a Burst of Light, Even in Dark Times 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

“Porgy,” by George and Ira Gershwin, and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, depicts a crippled beggar in a poor African-American community of Charleston, South Carolina. Met Opera to hire all-black chorus for ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Attacks on the press. Probably even before that, attacks on Hispanics and African-Americans. Those two things really concerned me.” Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

"I'm very, very excited and happy to see that African-Americans are finally receiving ... dating services," he said. African-American singles change their approach to dating 2011-07-19T04:30:28Z

Competition from films with predominantly African-American casts, including “Black Nativity,” may have taken a bite out of the “Madea” franchise, which is also aging. ArtsBeat: New ‘Hobbit’ Film Opens at No. 1 2013-12-15T21:36:13Z

On this second night, speakers include former President Bill Clinton, and Mothers of the Movement, a group of African-Americans who lost children to gun violence or in clashes with the police. What’s on TV Tuesday 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Some pieces are influenced by African traditions, and are grouped by various African-American art movements, including Spiral, the Kamoinge Workshop and the Black Arts Movement. Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

Like many black artist-activists of the day, Mr. Chandler’s career developed largely within an urban African-American neighborhood, his being the Roxbury section of Boston. Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Old-Time Religion in Modern Guise It’s not unusual for a mid- or late-career white pop singer to declare an interest in African-American gospel music, especially from the 1950s, considered its late golden age. Music Review: Sinead O’Connor in ‘Gospel Sessions’ at Lincoln Center 2013-07-28T21:36:14Z

Legend graduated from UPenn with a degree in English with an emphasis on African-American literature. John Legend Calls Donald Trump 'Racist' 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z

But the disappearance of work hit black people first and hardest, decimating industries at the very moments when African-Americans, after centuries of marginalization, had only just got their foot in the door. Criminalizing the hustle: Policing poor people’s survival strategies from Erin Garner to Alton Sterling 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Misty Copeland, the first African-American woman to be named a principal in the 75-year history of American Ballet Theater, provided an enormous jolt to “On the Town” during her first week in the show. 'On the Town' Takes Box Office Leap Thanks to Misty Copeland 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

African-Americans watched the most of any ethnic group on TV and over mobile devices, at nearly 213 hours a month on TV, and 6 hours and 30 minutes on mobile devices. Nielsen: Online video viewers watch less TV 2011-06-15T20:33:19Z

Most of the jokes are about sex or Christians, but sometimes multiculturalism gets tweaked: in the pilot an African-American reporter covering the embezzlement scandal is named Bridget Sanchez-Fong. The TV Watch: Kristin Chenoweth and Annie Potts in ABC?s ?GCB? 2012-03-01T23:09:54Z

Thanks to his deftness as a bootlegger, his management of social unrest among poorly paid African-American workers in Atlantic City, and his fealty to Nucky, he has made a great fortune. Boardwalk Empire Recap: A Chaos of Spoils 2012-09-23T22:04:22Z

SAT-SUN African/African-American cultural arts, entertainment on four stages, art exhibit, vendors, children’s activities, food trucks, African dance workshops, history exhibit, Show and Shine Car Show, noon-8 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-06-12T23:05:39Z

“Thelma was instrumental in making possible the whole rethinking of not just African-American art but American art.” The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

The film was Singleton’s directorial debut; it earned him an Academy Award nomination for best director, making him both the youngest person and first African-American to receive that nomination. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Someone Great’ and ‘Aliens’ 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce conducted a feasibility study for a museum encompassing African-American culture in 2002; and in 2011, its focus was narrowed to music. Museum Exploring Music’s Black Innovators Arrives in Nashville 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it is done from a desire to feel closer to African-Americans, he said, or to escape whiteness. Jess Row’s ‘Your Face in Mine’ Explores ‘Racial Reassignment’ 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

"Selma" was also at the center of the upheaval over the lack of diversity in the Oscar nominations announced last week, which excluded the film's African-American female director and lead actor. And the winner is...'American Sniper': Reuters/Ipsos Oscars poll 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Whoopi Goldberg is the only African-American, which is astonishing when you consider just how many talented black performers are part of the current comedy boom. Review: ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ Puts Stand-Up in the Spotlight 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

His “The Migration Series” is a 60-panel work chronicling the mass movement of African-Americans from the Jim Crow South to the North. Lost, and Now Found, Art From the Civil Rights Era 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

Roughly half the 70 pieces are by artists who don’t self-identify as African-American; much of the work, across ethnic and generational lines, is abstract. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Its title is a play on the fictional Acme corporation that supplied Wile E Coyote with mail-order gadgets in the cartoon Roadrunner, as well as a reference to the African-American vernacular for "Ask me". Ellen Gallagher: wigs, waterworlds and Wile E Coyote 2013-05-07T18:30:10Z

She went on to become the third African-American female soloist in the American Ballet Theater’s history. Under Armour's Stunning Ballerina Ad Aims to Lure Women From Lululemon 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The movie's title comes from something African-American singer Paul Robeson told Belafonte when he was a young man: "Get them to sing your song, and they will know who you are." At 83, Harry Belafonte still sings of justice 2011-01-22T21:02:04Z

While there was some speculation that Marquel may not want to be known as the show’s “first African-American Bachelor,” he may be coming around. The Bachelor: Who Will Be the Next Star? Nick V., Farmer Chris or Grumpy Cat? 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

And what follows is a series of African-American faces filmed in medium close-up, often streaked with tears. The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Willis is a historian of African-American photography who teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she serves as professor and chair of photography and imaging. Henry’s ‘Out [o] Fashion’ exhibit takes boundaries off beauty 2013-03-29T21:15:08Z

Saturday night’s arena headliner was a jazz-influenced hip-hop act, The Roots, which topped a thematic through-line of contemporary African-American music that placed the festival firmly in the present. Even at 57, Monterey Jazz Festival still finding new levels of groove 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

The colored patterns in the floor installation are derived from 19th-century African-American quilts. In ‘Breathing Directions,’ Nari Ward Gathers Layers of African-American History 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Because we only read African-American authors, it was not one of our selections. If you lived through 'The Help,' do you have to read it, too? 2011-02-12T01:07:08Z

It is one of the dark ironies of American history that the broadening of the franchise to virtually all white male citizens coincided with the disenfranchisement of African-Americans and women. On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. McGruder’s biting sendups of African-American cultural figures like R. Kelly and Tyler Perry and subjects like snitching, racial self-hatred and the plight of Hurricane Katrina refugees were sometimes controversial and regularly hilarious. Critic’s Notebook: Back to ‘The Boondocks,’ Minus Its Creator’s Touch 2014-04-20T21:59:13Z

Sunday includes a tribute to Lucille Clifton, an African-American poet and writer known for her frequently autobiographical poems, who died in February. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z

Wearing an Afro wig, a fake mustache and mirrored sunglasses, she enacted the stereotype of an aggressive young African-American male whom she called the Mythic Being. Adrian Piper: The Thinking Canvas 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, he reported that the African-American rate of premature death — defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a death occurring before age 75 — is 50 percent higher than that of whites. We’re at peak “white racial apocalypse”: The enduring toxic myths fueling Obama backlash, “all lives matter” and Donald Trump 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Very few African-Americans were in the ample crowd, though. Rap rules Day 1 at Bumbershoot 2013-09-01T03:36:27Z

While he was a student, Mr. Lee made a short, “The Answer,” about an African-American screenwriter who’s hired for a remake of “The Birth of a Nation.” Spike Lee Turns a Period Piece Into a Protest of the Trump Era 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z

Viola Davis won for ABC’s “How to Get Away With Murder,” becoming the first African-American actress to win a best drama actress Emmy. The 2015 Emmy Awards 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Case in point: I Want That Purple Stuff, in which the duo delve not into Alice Walker, but how grape-flavoured soft drinks became a staple of African-American culture. The 50 best podcasts of 2018 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

Hendricks’ stage show “Evolution of the Blues,” in which he traced the history of African-American music in song and verse, opened at the Broadway Theater in San Francisco in 1974 and ran for five years. Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Migrants, many of them African-Americans from the rural South, were drawn by its pioneering car factories with their unprecedentedly high wages. The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli – review 2013-01-04T22:55:16Z

He played the younger of two African-American brothers adopted by a wealthy white man. Obituary: Gary Coleman, 42, star of '70s sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes' 2010-05-29T04:31:00Z

Adapted from Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this Oscar-nominated drama by Steven Spielberg looks at the difficult lives of African-American women living in 1930s rural Georgia. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Coco’ and ‘The Bachelor Winter Games’ 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

“I am an African-American woman of a certain age, and I studied history and African-American history since junior high school, so I didn’t have to backtrack on all that,” she said. The Carpetbagger: Video: Alfre Woodard’s Sole Scene 2014-01-28T22:27:42Z

African-American women, we get punished for running our mouth. Seven Flames Kindled by the Focused Fire of Ntozake Shange 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

It’s a movie about a young black man who is contending with the feeling that he might be gay; all of the characters in the film are African-Americans. The Unbearable Intimacy of “Moonlight” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

He grew up in Oakland, Calif., and attended St. Mary’s College nearby, where he was one of a few African-American students and the only varsity basketball player who also performed in poetry slams. Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

“This is one of the important collections to understand African-American culture writ large,” said Lonnie G. Bunch III, the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. A Plan for Howard University?s Moorland-Spingarn Center 2012-03-14T22:25:09Z

The Museum of Everything is showing the cute, closed sculptures of William Edmondson, the manual labourer who became the first African-American artist to be given a one-man show at New York's Moma. Frieze art fair – review 2012-10-13T23:06:54Z

But the trajectory from mostly black clubs to more mainstream venues to even more mainstream TV and movies is a familiar one to almost any breakout African-American comic, Mr. Pharoah noted. Jay Pharoah on ‘White Famous,’ Culture Gaps and His Grandmother’s Meatloaf 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

The clubs are a formalization of the loose confederacies that developed among rural African-Americans out of kinship, friendship or necessity. Louisiana?s Zydeco Trail 2011-04-22T18:55:00Z

For African-American musicians in such movies, Mr. Gabbard wrote, “the only success is the kind that leads to self-annihilation.” ‘Miles Ahead’ and ‘Nina’ Try to Hit the Beat on the Offbeat 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

So it was Asian, Latino, a bunch of African-Americans, just a bunch of different ethnic folks, because I wanted somebody brown. “There’s nothing worse than a white liberal who thinks they’re doing the right thing”: Sherman Alexie on Hollywood diversity, “The Revenant” and why he’s “not the proper kind of Indian” 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

For the work, Mr. Ligon used the actual text on signs carried in 1968 by African-American sanitation workers who were on strike in Memphis. Books and Museum Treats for Art Lovers 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

He agrees that more African-American and Hispanic students need to be enrolled in good colleges. Books of The Times: Application Adventure: A Dad?s College Essay 2011-03-03T16:59:43Z

The tension and embarrassment in the Microsoft Theater were palpable when an African-American, Regina King, finally won, for best actress in a limited series in Netflix’s “Seven Seconds.” The Emmys Joked about TV’s Lack of Diversity, and Then Demonstrated It 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Mattiwilda Dobbs, a coloratura soprano who was the third African-American to appear as a principal singer with the Metropolitan Opera, died on Tuesday at her home in Atlanta. Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano and Principal at Met, Dies at 90 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Yes, Ms. Pressley’s pet carries the name of Sojourner Truth, one of early America’s best remembered African-American antislavery and women’s rights activists. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

About 600 students filed into the auditorium of David W Carter High School, a largely poor African-American school in Dallas, for Marion Jones's "take a break" talk. Marion Jones: 'I'm a sucker for a challenge' 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

Back in the high school timeframe, he dated an African-American character in the comic's first representation of interracial relationships. CEOs' clash roils company behind comic hero Archie 2012-02-20T16:55:16Z

After the couple jumped the broom, an African-American tradition, guests waved pink ribbons in celebration. Two Eagles Take Flight in Washington 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Nowadays, raw footage of harrowing police encounters captured on phones, body cameras and dashcams have made age-old claims that African-Americans are mistreated harder to refute or ignore. Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

As an idiom and an approach, Afrofuturism is restricted neither to Africans, Americans nor African-Americans. ‘Space Is the Place’ Offers Otherworldly Takes on Identity 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

The legal consultant on the show is African-American. In ‘Your Honor,’ a New Orleans Judge Breaks Bad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Turner, a former president of the National Bar Association, whose members are primarily African-American lawyers, judges and legal scholars, sits on the boards of Comerica Inc. and Masco Corp. Bar Association Leader Is New Caretaker of Aretha Franklin’s Estate 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

“Black Lightning” is immersively, not incidentally, black: The good guys and bad guys, teachers and students, victims and criminals and reporters are mainly African-American. Review: ‘Black Lightning’ Is Pulp With a Purpose 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z

Arthur Monroe, an African-American artist and friend of Johnson’s, said that if the missing art had been by a white sculptor, "the university would have turned the campus upside down to find it." Art by Sargent Johnson, Berkeley?s Loss, Is Museum?s Gain 2012-02-20T17:59:44Z

Something about disco supported the coexistence of Latin sounds, white sounds, African sounds, African-American sounds, gay sounds, straight sounds, all these different things. Pop: Disco Revival in New York With Crystal Ark and Escort 2012-11-18T02:23:03Z

In February the White House website showed its refurbished Old Family Dining Room with a recently acquired Thomas hanging in pride of place — the first artwork in its collection by an African-American woman. 10 Galleries to Visit in Chelsea 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

And she now joins William Wells Brown, Harriet E. Wilson, and Frank J. Webb as the only African-American published novelists in the entire century. “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

June Dey is an African-American man whose superhuman strength allows him to escape slavery and the Virginia plantation where he was raised. In Wayétu Moore’s Ambitious Debut Novel, Liberia Is Reborn 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

Fusion has reported that 59 percent of the African-American contestants who have appeared on the franchise are sent home within the first two weeks of the show. Opiate for the masses: In selecting a black woman to woo, “The Bachelorette” does something it should have done years ago 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

Furthermore, when you plant your flag in New Orleans, it’s a predominantly African-American population, and you want to tell that story correctly and be true to it. In ‘Your Honor,’ a New Orleans Judge Breaks Bad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

But mainly I worried about Frazier and how her fate as an African-American girl was forever tethered to those eight minutes and 46 seconds. Endless Grief: The Spectacle of ‘Black Bodies in Pain’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

Hurley, who taught a weekend class on local black history at the Pratt Institute, nearby in Brooklyn, was part of a growing community engaged in recovering African-American roots in central Brooklyn. Recovering Weeksville, The First Black Brooklyn 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The Jim Crow laws that enforced segregation thoroughly shaped Hollywood, and for decades African-American performers appeared in marginal, often servile roles or not at all. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

“A lot of people looked at Julie and said, ‘I’m not going that way, look at what happened to Julie,’” said Clyde Taylor, a film scholar and African-American cultural historian. Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Known for motion pictures that chronicle the African-American experience and address issues of social justice, Mr. Daniels began contemplating “Empire” with Mr. Strong while making “The Butler.” The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Was it simply a vintage year for African-American documentary? 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

“At the time the entire debate seemed to be around Hispanics voting for an African-American president,” he said. film: Wedding Plan: Jump a Broom or Eat Goat? 2010-03-05T21:45:00Z

Rick Lowe, 53, Houston: Trained as a painter, Lowe has applied his talents to helping turn a struggling Houston neighborhood in the mostly African-American 3rd Ward into an evolving public art project. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

This book, based on the life of Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to travel to space, is about pushing back against sexism and racism and about the value of hard work. 12 groundbreaking books for young readers of all genders 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

In his masterpiece, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” August Wilson wrote that the essential quest for African-Americans in the years after slavery was to find their own individual songs. Critic’s Notebook: ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Prudencia Hart’ Sing Anew in London 2013-07-16T21:56:11Z

Sarah Benson’s production began in the lighthearted sitcom style of “Family Matters,” as an African-American family gets ready for a birthday dinner. The Best Theatre of 2018 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z

An 11-year-old African-American girl from Portland, Ore., takes a trip to Harlem and confronts family secrets and cultural history. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Premiering on April 10, “The Great War” series tells the stories of African-American and Latino soldiers, suffragists and Native American code talkers, among others. We’ve been here before: Eerie parallels between World War I and present-day America 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z

The prison is now among the largest in the country, and the museum notes, “most of the inmates are African-Americans serving life sentences.” The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Williams was drawn to a factual story that celebrated the contributions of African-Americans and, he said, was “chipping away at the pro-male narrative that’s out there right now, which needs to go.” Pharrell Williams, Making Noise for ‘Hidden Figures’ Everywhere 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

A man of many firsts - the first African-American staff photographer for Life, the first African-American to direct a major motion picture - he was as prolific as he was talented. Lens Blog: A Look at Gordon Parks's Fashion Photography 2012-11-30T10:00:13Z

Almost none could name even one African-American friend. Eye-opening book on integration by author with no black friends 2012-07-18T20:40:04Z

Consider the extra grammatical “aspects” of African-American English, the “be” aspects conveying habitual states, which add descriptive precision and nuance. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

In those days, it was a place where African-Americans risked death by trying to vote. Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

She faced backlash on social media for her lead participation in a tribute recognizing an historic African-American record label. Jennifer Lopez turns Motown tribute into own zesty show 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Dunn taught dance at Bennington college, Vermont, where Dixon created the black music division, devoted to new departures in music with African-American connections. Bill Dixon obituary 2010-07-22T17:15:00Z

They are joined by the New York choreographer Gierre J. Godley, who honors the African-American railroad workers of the early 1900s in “Gandy Dancer,” which was a slang term for these laborers. Dance Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Around them swirled a diverse ensemble of African-American actors, a rarity then and now. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Being African-American, however, this quartet put the accent on its own roots. The Carolina Chocolate Drops: A sweet treat, indeed 2011-08-18T15:59:04Z

I should note many of Trumbauer’s best-known works were designed by the chief designer in his firm, Julian Abele, one of the first African-American architects in America. Take a Virtual Tour of New York’s Museum District 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

When “Porgy” first opened on Broadway in 1935, many in the black community welcomed it as a rare big-stage showcase for African-American talent — though there were prominent dissenters as well. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Aaron Rahsaan Thomas, an executive producer of the reboot of “S.W.A.T.” and a rare African-American creator of a police drama, recently wrote about the need to “address the image of the hero cop.” ‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads? 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

Given the hype surrounding such figures, it’s surprising that one of the more interesting collections of contemporary African-American art is housed inside a fairly humble Manhattan two-bedroom apartment on Madison Avenue. This Modest New York Apartment Holds One of the Best Art Collections in Town 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

In the early days of the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt named a handful of African-Americans to his administration, in recognition of the Democrats’ expanding black vote. African-Americans in the New Deal 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

But the real test came when Mr. Halpern began showing the book to people like Mr. Howorth and Edward P. Jones, the African-American writer whose accolades include a Pulitzer Prize. Bill Cheng’s Novel is ‘Southern Cross the Dog’ 2013-05-08T20:26:13Z

Trump claims Kanye West as a friend and a “different kind of a guy” whose big following in the African-American community helped boost his approval ratings. Trump praises Kanye West, will talk justice reform at lunch 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

African-Americans deemed to be in violation of such prohibitions could be summarily punished with up to “39 strokes on the bare back,” all “without benefit of judicial tribunal.” Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. McCraney said choirs are an especially interesting subculture within African-American communities. In Tarell McCraney’s ‘Choir Boy,’ a Student Finds His Voice 2013-06-28T21:26:36Z

They had very good lives with beautiful houses, with all sorts of luxuries, but they devoted an incredible amount of their money trying to help the African-American community. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: America’s First Black Millionaires 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

“They said the neighborhood wasn’t zoned for it. And I told them, ‘Listen, you have museums around here without a shred of African-American history, in a city that the Underground Railroad passed through. A Self-Taught Artist Takes His Roadside Acropolis North 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

On television, too, African-American content seemed to be crossing over. Black films matter – how African American cinema fought back against Hollywood 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

That great tribute to African-American spirituals by Ailey is always a treasured part of the repertory. The Week Ahead: Dec. 25 ? 31 2011-12-25T00:22:25Z

African-American and Latino ticket buyers represented 71 percent of the audience. Diverse Crowds Fuel ‘Cars 3’ and ‘All Eyez on Me’ at Box Office 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Lawrence was probably the most celebrated African-American artist in the country when he began teaching at the University of Washington in 1971. Francine Seders Gallery to close after nearly 5 decades 2013-08-31T01:19:17Z

The post-Civil War Reconstruction era — which saw the dramatic expansion of rights for African-Americans, followed by their violent rollback — is one of the most poorly understood periods in American history. How Black Citizenship Was Won, and Lost 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Being at the National Constitution Center, in the center of the start of this country, was really symbolic of American history and African-American history, and the integration of that,” Ms. Spigner said. Finding a Love Connection on Zoom 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Yet for all of that buying power, major hospitality companies and tour operators often steer clear of targeting African-Americans. Personal Journeys: Traveling While Black 2014-01-03T19:31:34Z

The two judges I spoke to most when researching the show in New Orleans are African-American. In ‘Your Honor,’ a New Orleans Judge Breaks Bad 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

It was also a night that celebrated diversity: Of the eight trophies for acting, four went to African-Americans. 'Kinky Boots' struts off with the most Tony Awards 2013-06-10T10:37:10Z

“Black Confederate Ghost Story,” for instance, calls on “African-American apparitions hung, / burned, or drowned before anyone alive was born.” A bounty of literary riches this week in D.C. 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be a newspaper person and there weren’t any African-Americans doing what I wanted to do. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

He notes, “I can’t remember the last time there were three women playwrights on Broadway during the same season, let alone three African-American women.” The New Season: Plays by Katori Hall, Lydia R. Diamond and Suzan-Lori Parks 2011-09-17T23:00:46Z

As Curtis puts it, he and Morris are “the only brothers in Heidelberg,” an African-American family in the perplexing and sometimes unfriendly environment of a picturesque German town. Review: ‘Morris From America’: A 13-Year-Old Stranger in a Strange Land 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson remembers growing up in Milwaukee as black, then Afro-American: “By the time I got to high school I was African-American.” In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z

They don't understand at a very fundamental level why there should be any reparations for African-Americans in this country. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

The fact that the most-performed opera about the African-American experience is the work of an all-white team has not been lost on black composers who have struggled to get their music heard. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Feeling isolated from religious friends and families and excluded from what it means to be African-American, people turn to these sites to seek out advice and understanding, with some of them even finding a date. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

Derived from the field hollers once used by African-American slaves, “call and response” encouraged audience participation and was thus ideal for young listeners. Chicago News Cooperative: A Pioneer of Music for Children Is Still Inspiring 2011-04-03T08:30:04Z

When I saw the faces of the young African-American kids, when they had won, they looked like Julian Bond in 1965.” Jay Leno schools Jerry Seinfeld: Here’s how a comedian should talk about college students and political correctness 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Juan Capistrán, an artist based in Los Angeles, made a word installation on the window of the residence’s storefront, which now houses a cafe run by local African-American entrepreneurs. New Triennial Offers Artists the Canvas of Cleveland 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

The documentary Evolution of a Criminal is an insight into the events leading up to the bank robbery and subsequent imprisonment of young African-American Darius Clark Monroe. Filmmaker explores bank robber past 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Some of the works show African-Americans playing piano or guitar, and guards baring their teeth. Sketches From a P.O.W. Camp That Held African-Americans and Others 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

From humble roots, he taught himself photography and in turn taught America about the African-American experience. Lens Blog: A Look at Gordon Parks's Fashion Photography 2012-11-30T10:00:13Z

The BookClub, a group of African-American women who are celebrating 20 years of sharing books by African-American authors, is hosting an interracial dialogue Sunday, Feb. 13, at the Mercer Island Library. If you lived through 'The Help,' do you have to read it, too? 2011-02-12T01:07:08Z

This is not because children of color, in particular African-American children, are somehow more disobedient or rebellious than white children. Why Disciplining Young Kids Can Be Tricky 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

But the site is rich in African-American history. Offbeat History, Off the Beaten Path 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

That captures the punchiness of this film, in which Boseman stars as the civil rights lawyer who became the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Marshall’ and ‘Magic Mike’ 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Tainted black entertainers present a compound conundrum for African-Americans. How to Think About Bill Cosby and ‘The Cosby Show’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

According to Nielsen “Scandal” is the highest rated scripted drama among African-Americans, with 10.1 percent of black households, or an average of 1.8 million viewers, tuning in during the first half of the season. ‘Scandal’ on ABC Is Breaking Barriers 2013-01-16T23:09:54Z

Condemning both sets of rulings, she writes that “African-Americans were always the ones who posed the threat and always the ones who bore the brunt of the decision.” Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

Though Americans on average are getting less sleep, one group in particular appears to be more affected than any other: African-Americans, according to a study. Stress from discrimination might be causing a widening “black-white sleep gap” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

This is going to be the opportunity for people of color, not just African-Americans but others. Issa Rae of Awkward Black Girl on the Future of the Web Series 2012-07-10T15:00:54Z

Still, the period is a powerful negative charge for many white Southerners, including some who find inspiration in the tale of African-Americans moving to freedom. Park Service Project Would Address the Reconstruction Era 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

She presents African-American and Native American histories as “interrelated rather than separate streams of experience,” and explores the connections as well as the conflicts between these groups. Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The years of Hayden’s youth saw radical changes in the lives of African-Americans: she was born in 1952, the year that the Supreme Court started to consider Brown v. Carla Hayden Takes Charge of the World’s Largest Library 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The land for Central Park, the “green lung” of New York and one of the greatest parks in the world, was secured by expelling Manhattan’s largest African-American settlement. The Plight of the Urban Planner 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

“The tradition on every Broadway show, every show that I’ve seen,” she said, “it’s been a blond lady with a bob, like skinny. I have not seen an African-American Cassie ever.” Theater Kids Trade a Big Stage for Highlight Tapes and Heartache 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

What distinguished this case from most others was what happened in the aftermath: Almost every single one of Forsyth’s 1,098 African-Americans — prosperous and poor, literate and unlettered — was driven out of the county. Review: ‘Blood at the Root,’ a Tale of Racial Cleansing Close to Home 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

While at Marvel, Colan and Lee co-created The Falcon, an African-American character that was a hero in his own right, working in tandem with Captain America, but never as a sidekick. Comic book artist Gene Colan dies at 84 2011-06-24T13:53:07Z

Armed with that information, Mr. Boses spoke to Michael Rosenfeld of the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York, an authority on African-American art. Art by Sargent Johnson, Berkeley?s Loss, Is Museum?s Gain 2012-02-20T17:59:44Z

It was the first feature film by an African-American woman to have a wide release, an achievement sullied only by the icy reception that Hollywood gave Ms. Dash, back then and pretty much ever since. Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

Several weeks ago in Philadelphia, former president Bill Clinton confronted protesters who were critical of his 1994 Crime Bill and its role in the mass incarceration of African-Americans. “Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality”: Michael Fortner on race, the Clintons and the crime bill 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

In person, he comes off as friendly but guarded, and wary of the expectations put on an African-American writer who publishes a big book about race and freedom in the era of Black Lives Matter. Colson Whitehead on Slavery, Success and Writing the Novel That Really Scared Him 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Ultimately the consensus was that the adjective is racist, since it implies that African-Americans who don't speak as clearly are in some way fundamentally inferior, and therefore worth less. Motherlode Blog: I Hate Being Called a Good Dad 2012-11-09T16:57:12Z

“The Banker” is based on the real-life story of two African-American businessmen in the 1960s who sought to help people overcome racial barriers in banking. Apple cancels premiere of film 'The Banker' after unspecified 'concerns' 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

In 2018, the museum sold off paintings from its collection by blue-chip male artists — Franz Kline, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol among them — and used the proceeds to buy work by African-Americans and women. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fordjour, a Harvard graduate from Memphis and the son of Ghanaian immigrants, is known as an interdisciplinary artist whose colorful works often include references to issues of African-American identity. A Fight Over Money, Loyalty and Who Gets Credit for an Artist’s Rise 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

Waithe won an Emmy for co-writing the episode, making her the first African-American woman ever to do so and catapulting her career. The Very (Very) Slow Rise of Lesbianism on TV 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

The family acquired a summer house on Martha’s Vineyard, to better slip their daughter’s canoe into the elite currents of African-American culture. ‘My Soul Looks Back’ Warmly Recalls New York’s Black Elite in the 1970s 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

“When we leave the protection of our homes, we may never see our families again, as African-Americans in this tumultuous time,” she said. A Living Monument to the Ghosts of American Slavery 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

Part of what made Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight an Oscar milestone was the fact that it was an African-American movie that didn’t revolve around race. 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

At least one of those is bound to spark some fascinating conversations with, gee, a number of African-American women. A suitor on “The Bachelorette” is revealed to be . . . possibly racist 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

There has been a good deal of excellent writing, in the last few years, about jail and African-American men. A Filmmaker Put Away for Tax Fraud Takes Us Inside a British Prison 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

Rousso, a supple reader of such social memory, found himself haunted by the image of an African-American female officer locking manacles on the ankles of the deportee. The Deep Irony of a Scholar of Vichy France Being Detained in Houston 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Mr. Shani will conduct the “New World Symphony,” which Dvorak wrote while living in the United States, where he said he was inspired by his time spent listening to African-American music. Performance Guide 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

In 1960, after his long tenure with Duke and a short stint with his former student Quincy Jones, Terry became NBC’s first African-American staff musician. The Sound of Musical Joy: Clark Terry’s Trumpet 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

He would submit his academic assignments by mail while, at the same time, assisting the African-American community, who suffered so greatly from that tortured city’s racial  problems. “Something happened to me in Selma”: 50 years ago, a young white seminary student risked everything for the call of civil rights 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

But I also want to see what it’s like to be a young Native person, African-American, African-Canadian. Ellen Page on 'Freeheld' and Coming Out 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

“This is too good to be true,” B. thinks: “ancient, reclusive, likely psychotic African-American filmmaker. Outsider art, undoubtedly.” In Charlie Kaufman’s Novel, a Comic Hero Is Haunted by a Lost Film 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

Among novelists, I intermittently caught glimpses of Stephen L Carter, the African-American law professor who has charted the rise of black political power in thrillers including The Emperor of Ocean Park and Palace Council. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z

According to the plantation’s website, the slave quarters now house “an award-winning 45-minute program in African-American history” that recounts slavery through Civil Rights with $8 admission for adults. Disturbing wedding trend: Getting married at a plantation 2014-01-05T16:00:00Z

And Kyle Abraham completes his three-part “Untitled America,” in which he explores the effect of the prison system on African-American families. Alvin Ailey Dance Opens Season With Dizzy and Ella 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

It’s as if those scenes are supposed to elicit a knowing nod from African-Americans and a wince from white America. Atlanta star Brian Tyree Henry: if Trump gets elected 'it's going to be Mad Max' 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

They said: This is an art museum, so put art by African-Americans in the show; put writing by African-American art scholars in the catalog. What I Learned From a Disgraced Art Show on Harlem 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

One standard complaint often heard from white conservatives is that African-Americans are eager to complain about police killings of black citizens but say nothing about black-on-black violence. “Chi-Raq”: Spike Lee’s blistering, outrageous satirical assault on a society consumed by violence 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Rock, who is white, said Monday that his track record of financial and charitable support for Detroit, a largely African-American city, speaks for itself. Singer Kid Rock: Outcry over headlining new arena is political hatchet job 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

An example closer to military history is that of the first African-American fighter pilot. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

He knew Jim Crow and, like many African-Americans, endured the shape-shifting violence of its demise. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

When McCraney turned to his past in order to heal, he began to conceive of his title character, David, a dark-skinned African-American wunderkind who is mired in poverty, racism and colorism. ‘David Makes Man’ Is a Complex Portrait of Black Boyhood 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Though he became a household name among African-Americans, Chestnut didn’t have the box office draw of a Smith or Washington. ‘Best Man Holiday’ Revives Chestnut’s Lure 2013-11-14T16:51:50Z

The Rev. Michael Pfleger  today joined the chorus of voices demanding justice in the shooting death of , an African-American teenager shot in Florida by a man on neighborhood watch. Pfleger: 'Protect our children' 2012-03-25T18:44:00Z

The organization announced other major prizes on Monday, including awards named for Coretta Scott King recognizing an African-American author and illustrator for outstanding work. Tae Keller Wins Newbery Medal for ‘When You Trap a Tiger’ 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Both he and Ms. Shakur thought Wilson, a double Pulitzer Prize winner for works in his 10-play cycle on African-American life, was the right person for the task. ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Uses Songs by Tupac Shakur 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

Last year, Mr. Lopez wrote an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times lamenting the loss, in particular, of the historic First Baptist Church in Oakwood, which is the historically African-American section of Venice. Snapchat’s Disappearing Act Leaves Venice Beach Searching for Its Future 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

However, there are no African-Americans in the novel. Ava DuVernay’s Fiercely Feminine Vision for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The perception was that few quilts by African-American women were finely made, with accurate piece work and small stitching. Quilts With a Sense of Place, Stitched in Oakland 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

He noted that it was the 2015 murder of nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., by a white supremacist that led to the removal of the Confederate flag from the grounds of the statehouse. Historians Question Trump’s Comments on Confederate Monuments 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

So when African-Americans are good at basketball, it means they are not good at mental things. Review: Chelsea Handler Chats Up Racism, Marriage and More 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Behind , three new movies enjoyed strong debuts. courted the African-American audience, earning $25.75 million and second place. Box Office: How Rio Made Madea Mad 2011-04-24T14:10:00Z

It reflects a blend of traditional European dancing, early African-American dance and traditional Native American dance. Urban Athlete: Clog-Dancing Class With City Stompers in Chelsea 2011-12-02T00:01:16Z

Ms. Cortez’s work was beyond category by virtue of embodying so many categories simultaneously: written verse, African and African-American oral tradition, the discourse of political protest, and jazz and blues. Jayne Cortez, Poet and Performance Artist, Dies at 78 2013-01-04T01:23:58Z

The song describes a hypothetical encounter between a Confederate flag-wearing white Southern man and an urban African-American man in a coffee shop. Brad Paisley defends 'Accidental Racist' duet with LL Cool J 2013-04-09T20:15:37Z

No less pathological is the guilty coyness with which “King of Jazz” simultaneously acknowledges and effaces jazz’s African-American origins. ‘King of Jazz’ Is Back, Burnished for Movie Fans 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

And it brings forth a remarkable letter, one of the book’s sardonic highlights, in which Julia purports to apologize to “You, African-Americans” for any grievances that might be held against her. Review: ‘We Love You, Charlie Freeman,’ Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Debut Novel 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The Africans and African-Americans helped in the woodworking shops. The Smallest State Has a Rich History of Furniture Makers 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Even so, exhibitors are once again presenting an eclectic array of ancient and modern art, including a painting by the acclaimed African-American artist Jacob Lawrence and a shaman mask from Alaska. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Even Teddy Roosevelt, who was president 10 years earlier, invited the first African-American to the White House. Woodrow Wilson’s racist acts were notable, even for the time: “It really was reprehensible to segregate federal employees” 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

He specializes in African-American art history and deplores the tendency to reduce black art to a vehicle for ready-made arguments about injustice and social uplift. Darby English Joins MoMA as Consulting Curator 2014-04-02T12:00:16Z

She talks about the wardrobe that attracted so much scrutiny, explaining the great pressure she felt as the only African-American first lady so far in a culture addicted to image and double standards. In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Mostly Opts for Empowerment Over Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

As a result, “Crazy Rich Asians” was seen as a watershed moment by many Asian-Americans, echoing the emotional manner in which African-Americans responded in February to “Black Panther,” which was rooted in black culture. ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is No. 1 at Box Office, Proving Power of Diversity (Again) 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

While working as a ditch digger, he is further confused after he exalts the blues to an African-American fellow worker, who prefers Duke Ellington and Tony Bennett to Robert Johnson. Movie Review: ‘Not Fade Away,’ Directed by David Chase 2012-12-21T00:07:53Z

Equally a part of Northern, Midwestern and Southern African-American culture, the saying recognizes our ancestors’ ability to survive and thrive in the most challenging circumstances. The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

One of the many draconian statutes passed was a law against the trivial non-crime of “vagrancy,” allowing law enforcement to arrest and incarcerate African-Americans for being unemployed or incapable of proving employment. A leap for women’s rights: The Texas abortion case and the end of reproductive Jim Crow laws 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

This event focuses on some of the ballerinas who paved the way for Misty Copeland, who, in 2015, became the first African-American woman to be named a principal at American Ballet Theater. Things to Do in N.Y.C. This February 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

African-American residents live at a poverty rate over three times higher than whites. Jane Smiley on What St. Louis Tells Us About America 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

A young man riding on the back of a horse cart hears a cry from a nearby field and jumps off to stop a white man savagely beating an African-American youth. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z

“Kamillah’s background includes African-American and Native American traditions. We are all children of the same universe.” It Was Supposed to Just Be Fun. How Did They End Up Married? 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

These pictures are from the center’s collection and constitute a capsule tour of African-American history from before the Civil War to the 1960s. ‘Perpetual Revolution’ Shows Artists Shaping Their Times 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

African-American women were central to the civil rights movement, but seldom get their due. New & Noteworthy 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

But they also suggest that the social hierarchies arbitrarily built on color are operative as a kind of internalized racism among African-Americans who privilege light shades of brown skin. Art Review: Carrie Mae Weems Charts the Black Experience in Photographs 2014-01-23T23:42:31Z

Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, perhaps there might be some backlash. Revealing Eden author needs some Good Black Friends 2012-08-27T13:00:01Z

“A lot of times people didn’t perceive me as being African-American,” he added. On Bernard Lumpkin’s Wall, a Visual Conversation About His Roots 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The topic of conversation was black filmmaking and the creative challenges African-American artists face in bringing their vision to the screen at a special dinner on Sunday night during the Sundance Film Festival. Seen and heard at Sundance 2013-01-21T22:14:09Z

A visitor could easily spend a week sauntering along the city’s haunting boulevards and leave without a clue about the essential role Georgia’s oldest African-American community has played here. Savannah, Both Sides 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

There is no alluring Grace Kelly socialite to distract him; instead, there’s a middle-aged, African-American “day houseman” named Sam, who runs errands for him. Review: ‘Rear Window,’ the Perils of Voyeurism, With Kevin Bacon 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

On my way out, I passed an older African-American man placing fliers on the information booth, and asked if he worked for the Heidelberg Project. In Detroit, Cheap Eats, D.I.Y. Art and the Charm of Locals 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Earlier this summer Norm Lewis became the first African-American in the title role of Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” Keke Palmer Will Be Broadway's Next 'Cinderella' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

These sequences are not the whole movie, partly because Pug hasn’t made the cut yet, and partly because, like many of these urban African-American riders, he has plenty else he might worry about. Movie Review: ‘12 O’Clock Boys’ Centers on Dirt Bike Riders in Baltimore 2014-01-31T00:28:01Z

Does he mean to suggest that to a middle-class black man, all other “classes” of African-Americans appear as a contaminating force in their assimilated lives? Theater Review | 'Neighbors': At Public Theater, Racial Commentary in Caricature 2010-03-09T22:11:00Z

“The idea was to use science fiction as a metaphor for the issues of the time – the civil rights movement, African-Americans’ struggle for equality, the peace movement during the Vietnam war, the cold war. Star Trek’s George Takei: ‘I’d take a female friend to premieres. Then go out to a gay bar’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

He also broke color lines, making his way into the top playlists of MTV and rock radio where few African-American stars were allowed. Prince Was the Great Purple Genius of Paisley Park 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

A tale of two African-American sisters saddled with bloody revenge, it is a startling, sprawling work that borrows from Afropunk, epic poetry and classic Westerns and includes some disturbing scenes of violence. A Safer Home for Dangerous Plays 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Native Americans and African-Americans are considered at some length in this book, but Stoll’s primary focus is on poor whites. The Story of Appalachia, With Plenty of Villains 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Davis may be considered the dean of African-American opera composers. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

If these were all African-Americans, or if these were all Muslims, the last thing we would talk about is mental illness. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

In Rye a ceremony on Saturday starts at 10 a.m. at the African-American Cemetery, 215 North Street, and an observance on Monday begins at 10 a.m. on the Village Green, Boston Post Road. Spare Times for May 24-30 2013-05-23T22:24:27Z

Knowingly or not, they have come to accept Ellison's idea that what we understand to be American is, in countless visible and invisible ways, impossible without African-Americans. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

In Season Twenty, for example, Kim, a white Southern Christian, urges her African-American roommate, Brianna, to “not get ghetto” when the two engage in an argument. Thirty Seasons of “The Real World” 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith” is a grand overview of the work of African-American photographer Al Smith. MOHAI exhibit of Al Smith’s photographs shows vibrancy of Seattle’s Central District and African-American community 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z

I understood very early on that this mostly blue-collar African-American audience was feeling inspired. Madea Honored the Strong Black Women I Grew Up With, but It’s Time to Move On 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

An African-American from New Orleans, Ms. Smollett met their father, Joel Smollett Sr., a Russian-Polish Jew, in the Bay Area, where they campaigned for civil rights. The Smollett Family Business: Acting and Activism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s artistic director, recently lit a small firestorm when he suggested that hip-hop was among the greatest threats to the well-being of African-Americans. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Of the nearly 6,000 houses built in Flint in the early 1950s, fewer than 100 were open to African-Americans. Two Views of Flint’s Water Troubles: One a Close-Up and One With a Wide-Angle Lens 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

“The viewer gets a wide window into African-American life in New York at this time,” Glenn Kenny wrote of the movie in his review for The Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The God of High School’ and ‘Personal Problems’ 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

All of these items orbited an argument about the capacity of African-Americans to withstand, and fight, injustice, with pride, dignity, and joy. What W. E. B. Du Bois Conveyed in His Captivating Infographics 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

The 19th-century red-brick building, with Greek Doric columns flanking the entrance, was once the home of Richmond’s first African-American Baptist church. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

That partnership was short-lived, and Mr. Rossi briefly worked on his own before trying something daring in 1969: He and the African-American comedian Slappy White formed one of the world’s first interracial comedy teams. Steve Rossi, Straight Man of Comedy Duo Allen and Rossi, Dies at 82 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

What he saw were beautiful African-Americans in unbelievable costumes singing powerful songs. 'It's his time' _ 'Kinky Boots' star Billy Porter 2013-06-05T12:30:10Z

Taylor shares several similar road stories, unfolding a fascinating history of black travel as chronicled in the Green Book, the popular and essential guidebook for African-Americans founded by Victor Green in 1936. Highways Through Hell 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

“We talk to them about different diseases and illnesses that affect African-Americans, including high rates of diabetes and high blood pressure,” Else said. Fresno’s Freedom School is changing the narrative on farming for black youth 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

“When you talk to African-American audiences, that’s their grief — people don’t want it to be sugarcoated,” he said. The Cast of ‘Amazing Grace’ Grapples With Slavery 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Professor Michael Dawson is one of the foremost experts on American public opinion, the color line and reparations for African-American slavery. White people just don’t get it: Bernie Sanders, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the reality of reparations 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

For more than 40 years, the Coretta Scott King Award has honored excellent children's books created by African-American authors and illustrators. Prize-winning children's books by African Americans 2011-02-19T00:39:28Z

And at least one work in the show, by the New York City-based African-American artist Hank Willis Thomas, could confirm their deepest fears. An Enthralling Show of Afro-Atlantic History Illuminates Brazil 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It's somehow not the same as holding the real thing in your hands, but the books provide fascinating insights into the African-American experience. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

In fact, reading as a way of becoming is a feature of African-American autobiography, as it is of so many outsider-memoirists of any ethnicity: Malcolm X, for one, provides an extended account of his self-education. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

Ben Cummings and Orson Cummings’s documentary spends a season with the Bridgehampton Killer Bees, a predominantly African-American and working class high school basketball team in an area famous for the wealthy: The Hamptons. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Origin’ and the CMA Awards 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

And it arrives at a moment of long-delayed acknowledgment of abstract art by African-American women. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

In the book, she describes declining to join a sit-in at law school protesting professors’ claims that African-Americans and women were not qualified to teach, because she didn’t feel comfortable “taking a side publicly.” Leaning In? Won’t Help if Guys Are Leering, Writes Ellen Pao 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

This year’s surprises include four nominations in key categories for Jordan Peele’s “Get Out,” in which an African-American man finds himself trapped at his white girlfriend’s house with her strange family. 'Wonder Woman' stumbles, 'Get Out' surprises at Oscar nominations 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Charges of cowardice and sentimentality, which came from both white and African-American writers, were answered with counteraccusations. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

"Or mostly men, because there are men of such quality - African-American men - such riches, such dignity and humor," she said. Angelou celebrates black history with Oprah, Keys 2013-02-02T12:46:03Z

Fun Fact: This is the first year that two African-American women, Viola Davis and Taraji P. Henson, have been nominated in this category. Emmys 2015 Predictions: Who Will Win and Who Should 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z

Krewe’s opening would be notable even if it were in New Orleans, a majority-Black city where restaurants owned by African-Americans are still relatively rare. Two Chefs Moved to Rural Minnesota to Expand on Their Mission of Racial Justice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Noting the large number of pale-faced Paltrow clones present, several of whom had pulled up in Jaguars and Range Rovers, Ms. Bakewell, who is African-American, addressed the oft-made charge that Goop is homogeneous and elitist. Meet the Goopies 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The first is the National Museum of African-American History & Culture, approved in 2003 by President George W. Bush and opened, fittingly, by President Barack Obama on September 24th. A tour of a changing capital 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

But the plot of “Freedom, NY” requires the other two characters on stage — an African-American grandmother and her 12-year-old granddaughter — to not share this obvious thought until well into the 75-minute drama. 'Freedom, NY' pretentious and unbelievable, but at least it's short 2011-05-13T20:16:05Z

A few years ago, the owner of the famous wheelbarrow was identified: Thaddeus Marshall was an African-American neighbor and patient of Dr. Williams in Rutherford, N.J. American Artists, Inspiring and Enchanting 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The strangest and most anomalous building is the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, due to open in the autumn of 2016. America’s front yard 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But it still has a ring of truth, and is expertly embodied by Reginald André Jackson as an ill-used African-American actor. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z

The ceremony, which featured an impassioned sermon by African-American bishop Michael Curry on the power of love, was watched by millions around the world. Oprah Winfrey reiterates she will not run for president 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

African-Americans have nothing in common with Muslims so please stop insulting us with this false equivalency. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

The request was to guest-edit an issue on the theme of photography and African-American life. Celebrating Black Culture With a Careful Eye 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

In a funny, passive-aggressive twist — because Stella would probably not approve — Mr. Thomson, an African-American man, is the most convincing, at least in terms of his movement. Dance Review: Recalling and Quoting Her Mother 2011-05-06T23:26:08Z

“I wanted my kids, my little African-American kids, to be proud of being African-American,” she said recently to explain her passion for the museum. Elsie McCabe Thompson and the Museum for African Art 2010-06-17T18:01:00Z

The story is set in a primarily African-American Memphis megachurch; one of its show’s attractions is its soundtrack featuring gospel music. TV picks for March 15: ‘Greenleaf’ returns 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Wiktor is a Polish expat playing African-American music in Paris, pursuing an illusion of freedom as Zula — whom he calls the woman of his life — performs communist kitsch and gradually falls to pieces. ‘Cold War’ Review: Love Without Borders 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Yet this exaggerated generalization was once useful, especially for African-Americans re-embracing a heritage that had long been maligned. In Africa, a Village of Mind, a World of Styles 2010-05-21T22:37:00Z

In communities as varied as Cambridge, Cleveland and Atlanta, its developments established segregation in neighborhoods that European immigrants and African-Americans had previously shared, mostly amicably. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

Some of the most interesting parts of Mr. Woods’s film deal with that topic, showing how African-Americans were excluded from swim culture and public pools. | 'White Wash': ?White Wash,? a Documentary About Black Surfers ? Review 2011-09-23T04:03:04Z

Parker wrote, directed and stars in the movie about an African-American father seeking justice for his teenage son killed in a stand-off with police. Apologetic Nate Parker returns with police violence drama 'American... 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

You have one more month to see “30 Americans,” Tacoma Art Museum’s showcase of paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos by African-American artists. 4 art exhibitions to see at Seattle-area galleries in December 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

An African-American waiter named James Parker, who tackled Czolgosz after two shots were fired, was hailed as a hero. Echoes of an Exposition, and an Assassination 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

It shows papers and records of Susan B. Anthony and Mary Church Terrell, an African-American activist who championed racial equality. Where to Celebrate Women’s Rights This Year 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

When Charlotte was 6, Misty Copeland became the first female African-American principal at American Ballet Theater. After Misty Comes Marie. Breaking Barriers in ‘The Nutcracker.’ 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

Twenty years later, in 1991, 16 films were released theatrically that were directed, produced or written by African-Americans, a historic year that was documented in a cover article in The New York Times Magazine. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z

Ms. Stone, 31, who lives in Atlanta and has two young sons, said she had written the book after a string of high-profile shootings of unarmed African-American teenagers left her feeling gutted. Where Fiction and Reality Collide: Books and Black Lives Matter 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Next was a lecture by Thomas F. DeFrantz, a professor of dance and African-American studies at Duke University. Dance Review: Danspace Project?s Parallels at St. Mark?s Church 2012-03-28T22:06:49Z

“This movement is also about African-Americans who are buying tickets to the concerts,” said Mr. Leon, the clothing designer. Where Mexican Folk Ballads Meet Trap Music 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

What Walker has defined as "womanism" caused an uproar in many corners of the African-American establishment, full of indignance at what was judged her "negative imagery" of the black male, the black family. The Color Purple: devils and dirty linen 2013-07-16T18:30:00Z

And never mind that Chicago gave the White House a thin, patient, African-American president. A Rich tradition: Can Chicago shake political stereotype with new mayor? 2011-02-22T00:45:00Z

Doc McStuffins, the African-American title character of an animated TV series for children, dreams of becoming an M.D. and, for now, runs a cheerful home clinic for stuffed animals and dolls. Black doctors see hope in TV's 'Doc McStuffins' 2012-06-12T17:56:17Z

And “Hair Love,” a seven-minute film about an African-American father’s struggle to style his young daughter’s hair, won the animated short film category. ‘Parasite’ makes Oscars history as the first foreign-language film to win best picture 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Misty Copeland became the first African-American woman to be promoted to the role of principal dancer at American Ballet Theater. Social Media Reaction to Misty Copeland's Historic Promotion 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

This despite the fact that among the 16 million U.S. soldiers who fought in World War II, there were about one million African-American soldiers. African-American GIs of WWII: Fighting for democracy abroad and at home 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

On the issue of Rogers and race, it is important to note how he came out of a background where whites treated African-Americans paternalistically. New Mister Rogers film downplays his radical edge: “His work was deeply political” 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The drama about African-American scientists in the early days of the space program was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award this week. Box Office: "Split' Tops 'Dog's Purpose' With $26 Million 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

Sam’s struggles are mirrored by those of two other African-American students seeking a way to fit in at Winchester while staying true to themselves. ‘Dear White People,’ About Racial Hypocrisy at a College 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

His intention was to create a community of landowning African-Americans at a time when such ownership was a requirement for voting. ‘Funk, God, Jazz & Medicine,’ Black Heritage in Brooklyn 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

Before its citizens drove away African-Americans, they drove away Native Americans. Review: ‘Blood at the Root,’ a Tale of Racial Cleansing Close to Home 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zink’s second novel is a tangled satire about a well-born Southern woman who decides to pass as African-American, and when it came out in May, I gave it a mixed review. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

A view of the Washington Monument From a gallery devoted to African-Americans’ military service, visitors can see the Washington Monument on the Mall, and Arlington National Cemetery. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Artist Lonnie Powell of Lee's Summit, Mo., enjoys meeting patrons and discussing his work, much of which is portraiture of African-American men and women in oil, acrylic, charcoal, pencil, pastel and watercolors. How to collect affordable, original works of art 2011-08-31T04:16:04Z

And it marked one of the first times that a mass viewing audience was asked to contemplate the legacy of slavery from an African-American perspective. ‘Roots,’ Remade for a New Era 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

SUN Speakers look at the history of African-American mass communication from slavery to the present, 3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-02-22T23:13:04Z

Pained by the high-profile killings of African-Americans at the hands of the police, Mr. Harris began to think about taking action. T.I. Writes Open Letter to Barack Obama: ‘Your Legacy Will Live On’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

For minorities, the numbers are lower: African-American performers, for example, got 11 percent of the principal roles in Broadway and touring plays, and 9 percent in musicals. Theater Jobs Skew White and Male, Study Finds 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

After navigating multiple ramps, rooms and interactive displays detailing the struggle of African-Americans dating back to the 15th century, they reached a display honoring Mr. Obama. Two Museum Exhibits, Refracting a Divide 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

The fact that Randall is African-American and that his family is white introduces race in an atypical way for family dramas, which tend to be homogeneous. ‘This Is Us’ Ends a Tear-Jerking Season With a Beginning 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Widely considered to be African-Americans’ independence day, Juneteenth is a time to share verdant family memories and indulge in the season’s bounty. A Juneteenth of Joy and Resistance 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

While so-called “non-Hispanic whites” still account for 49.6 percent of American newborns, immigration has expanded the Hispanic and Asian categories, while the African-American or black share of the U.S. population has remained roughly constant. Gwyneth Paltrow didn’t say the N-word 2012-06-05T15:45:00Z

“I’m coming from a low-income, predominantly African-American community where there just aren’t resources,” said Arabia Simeon, 19, a junior at Smith. On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

The events raised more than $55 million for charities and exposed international designers, many for the first time, to a largely African-American audience. Front Row: A Filmmaker?s View of the Runway 2011-01-26T21:15:41Z

Simply reading and name-checking him came to feel sufficient for some white readers, preventing them from consuming other African-American voices with different points of view and different readings of history. Through the Lens of the Obama Years, Ta-Nehisi Coates Reckons With Race, Identity and Trump 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Technically speaking, the barbershop chord is a flatted seventh, first used among African-American gospel groups in the early 20th century. The secret of barbershop: harmonise, project ? and smile! 2010-07-27T21:29:00Z

President Jimmy Carter, 90, grew up in Archery, Ga., in one of just two white families in an African-American community of 200. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

She said, “African-American art is not a completely overlooked area, but there’s work to be done. To my knowledge, we’ve never looked at a concentrated group of works by black artists” until now. The Met Embraces Neglected Southern Artists 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

As one of only six African-American students enrolled in the school of music at the time, she was not allowed to stay in the residence halls. Kay Davis, 91 Dies; Ellington Used Her Voice as Instrument 2012-02-23T09:25:22Z

Mr. Norman was hired at Disney in 1956 and became the first African-American animator on its staff. Review: ‘Floyd Norman: An Animated Life’: He Broke Barriers at Disney 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Never mind the Pew statistic that says a person most likely to read a book is an African-American woman with two years of college. Uncommon ground: Beverly Jenkins, diverse romance and American history the way it really happened 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

Of course there was a crucial difference between “Soul Train” and “American Bandstand”: most of the performers were African-Americans and the music was soul, R&B and eventually hip-hop. An Appraisal: Don Cornelius, Smooth Operator on Behalf of Soul 2012-02-01T22:59:47Z

As American Ballet Theater’s first African-American female principal, she has transformed audiences. The Best Dance of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The announcement was the latest development in a highly charged conversation about African-American remains in museum collections, especially those of the enslaved. What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved? 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

During a visit to the archives, the playwrights were shown materials highlighting the range of what researchers had uncovered, from early land records to documents relating to a local free African-American who himself owned slaves. Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

Local “trails” of African-American significance have long existed. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

But beyond the commercial success, the life of Tupac could be thought of as a metaphor for a generation of African-American youth. In Tupac’s life, the struggles and triumphs of a generation 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z

Burnett is one of the few African-American directors with a film already in the Criterion archive. Readers Would Add These African-American Directors to the Criterion Collection 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

“It’s important that these African-American characters are not always seen as scenery, or the backdrop to somebody else’s life,” she said. ‘Mockingbird’ Opens on Broadway 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

Several possible culprits are cited: the city’s refusal to grant the museum tax-exempt status; fund-raising competition from other museums, including the Smithsonian’s African-American museum; a deep recession. Who Will Tell the Story of Slavery? 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Dr. Muhammad, a historian, said the most widely circulated images of that period show African-Americans in dire poverty or being lynched. ‘Envisioning Emancipation’: Book Documents Slavery’s End 2012-12-21T22:48:45Z

Ms. Reed’s second hometown was New Orleans, where African-American cooks adapted the French praline to American ingredients. 5 Standout Recipes From Julia Reed, an Irreverent Voice of the South 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

The first US film directed by an African-American woman to be released theatrically was Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust in 1991. Regina King makes history at Venice film festival with One Night in Miami 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z

For another, she’s an African-American woman telling her own story in a movie. She’s Gotta Have It: why Spike Lee's sex-positive debut is a coming-of-age classic 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

But these days, it’s more famous as the former home of Jupiter Hammon, an educated slave who in 1760 became the first published African-American poet. Confronting Slavery at Long Island’s Oldest Estates 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

I always had a vision that Africans and African-Americans should come together and benefit one another. Dick Griffey, SOLAR Records founder, dies at 71 2010-09-29T21:59:00Z

This landmark 1935 opera, based on a novel and a subsequent play, is set in the fictional African-American community of Catfish Row in Charleston, S.C. ‘Porgy and Bess’ With a White Cast Stirs Controversy 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

A taut, gritty thriller, the film, which also stars Tyrese Gibson, puts a spotlight on the deep distrust between many African-Americans and the police. ‘Moonlight’ Unlocked the Door. Naomie Harris Charged Through It. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

It was also a reaction to the 1965 government-issued Moynihan report that had cited family instability as the cause of the “deterioration” of African-American life. Art Review: Carrie Mae Weems Charts the Black Experience in Photographs 2014-01-23T23:42:31Z

The church, one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States, acquired the bell in 1886. Obama to Ring In Opening of African American Museum 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wiley, 40, whose father is Nigerian, was raised along with four siblings in South Central Los Angeles by his African-American mother, who relied on welfare benefits and earnings from the family thrift shop. Obama Portraitists Merged the Everyday and the Extraordinary 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Black activist groups thought they painted negative portraits of African-American masculinity. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

They built on the success of younger African-American artists such as Kerry James Marshall, 63, who recently broke $21 million at auction. Discovered After 70, Black Artists Find Success, Too, Has Its Price 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

Although white artists borrowed from African-American blues in the early days of rock, by the 1990s black music had moved on to spoken, beat-focused hip-hop, while white bands like Nirvana screeched with dissonant grunge rock. Bopping brilliant 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

The play raises timely issues about the overwhelming number of African-American men in prison; the importance of rehabilitation, as opposed to plain punishment; and the imperfect workings of the justice system. Review: In ‘Whorl Inside a Loop,’ Inmates Shape Their Stories 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Sandra Bland, a 28-year old African-American civil rights activist from Chicago, was found dead in her cell at Waller County Jail in Houston, Texas Monday morning. “What happened in that jail?”: Everything you need to know about the tragic & mysterious death of Sandra Bland 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

In the annals of African-American history, space ought to be made for "The Grace of Silence" and its authoritative grasp of memoir and history. 'The Grace of Silence': Michele Norris' memoir of unearthing family secrets 2010-09-30T20:39:00Z

Their clash also highlighted the fissures among African-Americans over their place in the #MeToo movement. Pressured by Simmons Over Exposé, Oprah Winfrey Faced a Big Decision 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Mathis' novel -- which goes on sale on Thursday -- tells the story of the Great Migration through the life of an African-American teenager named Hattie Shepherd. ArtsBeat: Novelist's Debut Is Newest Pick for Oprah's Book Club 2012-12-05T17:58:51Z

The quilts, part of a bequest made by Eli Leon, constitute one of the largest collections of African-American textiles in an American museum. Berkeley Art Museum Names a New Director 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

In the 1960s she was the first African-American woman chosen to play leading roles at the American Shakespeare Festival. Remembering Ruby Dee: A Life of Artistry and Activism 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

As uncomfortable as I felt in that park, the film at the visitors’ center represented African-American soldiers very well. Q&A: Ta-Nehisi Coates On His Obsession With the Civil War 2012-06-01T18:18:51Z

For one of the first times, if not the first time, in African-American history, the prophetic was trumped by the political. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

In Saheem Ali’s revival, the piece is handed over to Michael Benjamin Washington, who performs verbatim monologues based on interviews with African-Americans and Hasidic Jews as well as others. 4 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

The first episode sees the "frenemies" clash over the merits of Obama versus former President George W. Bush, as well less obvious topics like the integration of hair salons for African-Americans and white Washingtonians. Politics trump bling as "Real Housewives" move to D.C. 2010-08-04T12:39:00Z

“It speaks to the African rhythms and African traditions that continue to be within African-American culture,” she said. The Art and Artistry of Double Dutch 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

This, of course, is famously the catchphrase of Mr T, who originally played the hugely musclebound African-American warrior with the mohican haircut, BA Baracus. Have mercy, take pity: The A-Team catchphrase is about to go viral 2010-07-20T10:21:00Z

Growing up in rural Sterling, Illinois — the daughter of a Mexican homemaker mother and an African-American accountant father — she absorbed the Midwestern work ethic early on. An Artist Who Paints in Cryptic Pastel Symbols 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

An African-American congregation worships in a country church. Allison Janae Hamilton’s Spirit Sources 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

Groupings of artworks also highlight contradictions for African-Americans who might fight alongside whites to protect American freedoms, yet still have trouble reaching full equality, according to Erin Falker, an assistant curator at the museum. Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

The Obamas’ recent selection of artists to paint their official portraits drew attention to the rich tradition of African-American figurative painting. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

Their actions speak to a rarely acknowledged aspect of the history of African-American veterans — one of injustice, disillusionment, trauma, racial militancy and undignified death. Dallas and Baton Rouge tragedies: A reminder of the troubled history of black veterans in America 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

Like Mr. Wiley, Ms. Sherald paints portraits of African-Americans by working both from photographs and live models, and feeding off painting’s traditions, if in a more straightforward way. For Their Portraits, Obamas Shine Light on African-American Art 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

Of more than 1,000 titles, only six are by African-Americans. Readers Would Add These African-American Directors to the Criterion Collection 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

In 1954 she discovered tap dancer Arthur Duncan, who would become the first African-American regular to be featured on a variety series with his work on "The Lawrence Welk Show." Remembering Betty White, America's grandmother and the first lady of television, dead at 99 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

The fashion line’s work in Varanasi got the attention of David Adjaye, a star British architect whose international works include the design of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington. For Indian Weavers in Varanasi, Help for an Endangered Craft 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

It also seeks to educate home cooks across the country about, as the introduction states, “the true food of African-Americans.” Carla Hall is ‘the most visible black person in food.’ Now she wants to take soul food mainstream. 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Nearly three-quarters of the gifts from individuals were from African-Americans. How the Fight for a National African-American Museum Was Won 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Barnett said she believes the biggest challenge that black female editors face in the mainstream media world is the incorrect perception of the narrowness of the African-American perspective. On the Runway Blog: African-American Chosen as Editor at Brides 2012-10-04T20:01:18Z

There’s an African-American character on “Legends of Tomorrow” who contends with segregation as well, but he also can transform into a human flamethrower and has a lot of powerful pals. Opiate for the Masses: “Making History” and “Time After Time” add to this season’s TV travel addiction 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

Reading is fundamental: Ms. Fumudoh said studying poetry and taking African-American studies courses at Northwestern University prepared her well for her career lampooning social norms. Ziwe Fumudoh Uses Humor to Push Racial Buttons 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

“Hopefully,” Mr. Gelb said, “there will be many more African-American composers whose work we feature.’ The Met Will Stage Its First Opera by a Black Composer 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

A Columbia University graduate who majored in African-American studies and creative writing, Ms. Hall was nominated for the prize by the Signature Theater Company in New York. ArtsBeat: Katori Hall Wins Blackburn Prize for Outstanding Women Playwrights 2011-03-02T21:30:10Z

“My agent might have said something similar, that the reception of the book would go down easier if it was an African-American author.” In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

All these continue to leave generations of African-Americans at a decided disadvantage. Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Emphasizing African-American contributions to circus arts, UniverSoul does its acts to hip-hop, R&B, soul and gospel. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Many Muslims are quite prejudiced against African-Americans and think nothing of hurling the n-word. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z

The album’s second half intertwines the personal and political tragedies of the last three decades in the African-American community. Album review: Killer Mike, 'R.A.P. Music' 2012-05-18T17:33:00Z

Her father is Mexican-American, and her mother is African-American. Lauren Ridloff’s Quiet Power: ‘My Life Has Changed in Every Way’ 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Community is really important for all artists, and I think specifically for African-American artists. Kehinde Wiley on Painting Masculinity and Blackness, from President Obama to the People of Ferguson 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The African-American singer and songwriter, wearing lime green sunglasses and braids down to his waist, headlined the 48th edition of the prestigious Swiss festival, fulfilling a longtime wish of its late founder Claude "Funky" Nobs. Stevie Wonder blends hits at Montreux for Quincy Jones 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

ABC has also been aggressively promoting the telecast on its schedule, which features shows with large African-American followings like “Scandal,” “How to Get Away With Murder” and “black-ish.” For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

“And we have a letter from an African-American soldier who expresses his hope that his service will bring about social and political change.” For Children Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Some of the artworks there deal with the African-American history of the neighborhood Robeson grew up in. Frugal Traveler Blog: A Day Trip to Princeton, $66, Nap Included 2012-10-02T21:30:36Z

“The stereotype of African-Americans in this country was that we weren’t thinkers, but Hansberry was thinking, batting around ideas, putting forth ‘what ifs’ and challenging suppositions that everyone else took for granted,” Ms. Jackson said. For Lorraine Hansberry, ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Was Just the Start 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Lewis had escaped from Confederate imprisonment, had his life saved by an enslaved woman who hid him, and then, remembering that assistance, gave shelter to an African-American fleeing Oklahoma’s race riots in the 1920s. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z

In 1992, when Mr. Walker joined New York City Ballet as its second African-American trustee while working in investment banking for the Union Bank of Switzerland, he was something of an outsider. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

When you think about it, it’s a wheelhouse African-American actors have rarely been allowed to go to. William Jackson Harper on the end of the Good Place 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

His 1963 book, “Blues People,” has been called the first major history of black music to be written by an African-American. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

The number of African-American female filmmakers in this year’s lineup offered further evidence of what seems to be a significant, perhaps lasting sea change. At Sundance, a Glorious Diversity of Voices Breaks Through 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

This seven-month series also offers deep explorations of Native American and African-American history. Oregon Shakespeare Festival Season Includes a Same-Sex ‘Oklahoma!’ 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

The African-American painters Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff created the scenes for the lobby of a Los Angeles insurance company’s headquarters, designed by the architect Paul Williams, who was also African American. ArtsBeat: Smithsonian Won't Buy Murals of Black Life in California 2011-03-28T19:17:25Z

The production bills itself as a “theatrical odyssey” inspired by “traditional African-American slave and work songs.” Protests Shutter a Show That Cast White Singers as Black Slaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Garland was groomed by Arthur Mitchell, the first African-American principal dancer at City Ballet. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power”: Now in its final month, this retrospective of the African-American artist’s career is a must-see. 5 must-see art exhibitions for November in Seattle area 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

Suzan-Lori Parks’s jazz fugue of a play, which closes on Dec. 18, presents a haunting, sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans. 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z

Sleek and modern Zankel Hall, down in the basement, hosted the premiere of a powerful multimedia piece dealing with racial profiling and a prison system that inordinately targets young African-American men. Nine Concerts in Seven Days at the World’s Most Famous Concert Hall 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Her literary voice combined a formality influenced by Shakespeare and Dunbar with the pithy, direct wisdom that is the bounty of the African-American women’s oral tradition. In a Commanding Literary Voice, Maya Angelou Sang Out to the World 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Two professors at Tufts University, Kendra Field and Kerri Greenidge, are among the many scholars who have been tracing the history of Massachusetts’s African-American residents, from slavery to Black Lives Matter. Black History Trail Makes 200 Stops Across Massachusetts 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Set in the offices of a Chicago publishing company specializing in African-American literature, the play takes place on a day of reckoning. Theater Review: ‘Stop. Reset.,’ by Regina Taylor, Opens at Signature Theater 2013-09-09T21:00:52Z

If “Sanford and Son” and “Good Times” and “The Jeffersons” were not quite the first sitcoms to feature African-Americans, they sought to do so with far more specificity and complexity than ever before. Norman Lear sits down with Salon: “Trump is the middle finger of the American right hand” 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Angola was built on a 19th-century plantation and now holds more than 5,000 men, most of them African-Americans and serving life sentences without parole. ArtsBeat: Prison Tower to Join New Museum’s Collection 2013-07-04T15:21:05Z

Raised in Manhattan in artist housing by his Caucasian mother and African-American stepfather, who taught acting at Brooklyn College, Diesel started performing at 7. Vin Diesel: The Film Star Of The Future 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Trump and his guests would discuss potential future clemencies for convicts along with “addressing the massive violent crime surge in Chicago” and efforts to create jobs for African-Americans. Kanye West defends support for Trump, in front of Trump 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Police were searching for two African-American men, described as being between 20 and 25. Melrose Park man killed during home invasion 2012-05-07T12:34:00Z

“But to me, it was the missing piece of the conversation. I’d never seen my fears as an African-American man onscreen in this way.” ‘I’d Never Seen My Fears as an African-American Man Onscreen’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Its lead single, “Black Gold,” is an exhortation aimed at African-American boys, calling up a cultural legacy that predates slavery. Esperanza Spalding on a Year in the Spotlight 2012-03-16T15:58:59Z

I wanted to use one of the African-American characters from that in our book. A Connoisseur of Saviors in Capes and Tights 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

The idea that her younger self is visible, but never completely, also speaks to her eclectic heritage as the daughter of an African-American physicist and a Jewish emigrant from Morocco. Review: ‘Narcissister Organ Player’ (Partly) Unveils an Artist 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

It's liberating to be looked at as filmmaker, not an 'African-American' filmmaker. 2010-02-17T09:48:00Z

The manuscripts were included in a sale of African-American historical artifacts by Guernsey’s auction house. Missing Malcolm X Writings, Long a Mystery, Are Sold 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

“One of the great things about this Terra initiative is the focus it’s putting on African-American artists in Chicago and their centrality to the city’s cultural production,” Ms. Zorach said. Beyond Frank Lloyd Wright: A Broader View of Art in Chicago 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The church grew according to the designs of Waverly T. Thomas, a local African-American architect. The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

The crown on this caryatid resembles the African-American museum on the National Mall. ‘Love at First Sight’ Inspired This African Art Collection 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Earlier this year, the African-American stand-up comic Mo’Nique called for a boycott of Netflix, accusing the streaming service of discriminating against black female comedians by paying less for their specials than their peers’. The Netflix Executives Who Bent Comedy to Their Will 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z

A monograph about another African-American photographer’s studio, “Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan,” was published by Steidl this year. Antiques: Edward Lycett, Designer for Faience Company, Brooklyn 2011-05-26T22:02:06Z

African-American newspapers lauded Eunice’s professional accomplishments as a prosecutor and public figure, noting her success working with Dewey with particular pride, but they were perhaps even more interested in covering her personal life. The Real-Life Heroine Who Inspired a Character on ‘Boardwalk Empire’ 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

The first African-American to train as an astronaut with NASA, he died in a supersonic jet crash in 1967, at the age of 32. Tavares Strachan Teams With SpaceX to Launch Satellite-Sculpture Into Orbit 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

His tribute to this African-American soldiers, who fought for the anti-slavery cause in the civil war, now sits in the National Gallery. Obama's art army 2012-11-05T22:00:02Z

Yes, African-Americans are more likely than whites to support prevention, gun control, and more investment in urban communities. “Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality”: Michael Fortner on race, the Clintons and the crime bill 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

There had been shows like “Sanford and Son,” “Good Times” and “The Jeffersons,” but the portrayals of African-Americans sometimes edged toward caricature. Trying to Separate Bill Cosby From Cliff Huxtable 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

That the movie’s writers are white, and Harvey and most of the actors African-American, is just one reason for homogenized tone of the piece. Think Like a Man: Men and Women Behaving Bedly 2012-04-19T17:07:29Z

But he reconsidered, and interviewed African-American police officers about their lives and how they are seen by their families and communities. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

SAT Techniques for finding African-American ancestors, 10 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-05-05T19:33:17Z

But long before hip-hop became the cultural phenomenon that it is today, poetry was the preferred canvas for African-American writers concerned with the black experience and how it relates to fear and death. What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

When the idea came to me, Dr. Brown was always an African-American woman. Danny McBride: Vice Principals Isn't A Story About Race 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z

Last year, the restaurant made local news when an African-American guest complained that it played loud hip-hop music that contained racial slurs. A Top Chicago Restaurant Messaged Its Virtue. Then Workers Spoke Up. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

The first is that affirmative action reinforces the stigma that shadows African-Americans. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Jonny Rhodes, whose Houston restaurant, Indigo, challenges stereotypes about African-American food, called Mr. Shepherd “honorable.” The Face of Houston’s Diverse Dining Scene Is a White Guy From Nebraska 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Only three years ago, the eminent children’s book writer and artist Walter Dean Myers wrote an opinion article in The New York Times lamenting the paucity of children’s books with African-American protagonists and themes. Children’s Primers Court the Littlest Radicals 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

African-American sports stars have embraced vegan diets as a way to improve their performance. Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Others have questioned how many more movies we need about African-American trauma before fatigue sets in. The Black Lives Matter effect: how cinema is tackling an epidemic of police shootings 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Children everywhere rehearsed familiar narratives about how after enduring years of racist oppression, valiant African-American women and men like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. peacefully demanded and secured equal rights. Rosa Parks’ activism wasn’t limited to a Montgomery bus 2013-03-15T16:57:00Z

A riff on “The Great Gatsby,” this debut novel centers on the fates and fortunes of African-American families in modern-day North Carolina. Paperback Row 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

Price was, Mr. Shadle said in an interview, “really the culmination of the African-American intellectual stream that followed in Dvorak’s footsteps.” Welcoming a Black Female Composer Into the Canon. Finally. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

It gave me a different perception of dance and beauty because the other girls were mostly African-American and Latina. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

George Lucas co-produces this story of the African-American Tuskegee Airmen and their role in the second world war, fighting both Nazis and racism. This week's new films 2012-06-08T23:05:15Z

He kept thinking about Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was fatally shot in Florida by George Zimmerman, and incidents of police violence against African-Americans. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

“Cherish the Day” is so different than “A Wrinkle in Time,” but both of them tell stories about young African-American women. Mindy Kaling’s Netflix Show Tells a New Kind of Story: One Like Hers 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

“This generation of African-American women is going to write their own story. They’re not going to wait for anyone else. And God bless them for that.” Symone Sanders Bet on Biden, and Herself 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

In 1958, a small group of African-American dancers performed at the 92Y, and now, six decades later, that company is one of the largest and most popular modern dance troupes in the country. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

The African-American community’s relationship with the police was the topic of a film Rae featured in last year, playing an activist in The Hate U Give, adapted from the YA novel by Angie Thomas. Issa Rae: ‘I’ve not started writing season four of Insecure yet’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

The Butler is one of many films coming out about the African-American experience. Standing up for 'the silent heroes' 2013-11-15T11:55:52Z

Music, visual arts, dance and events for all ages illuminate African-American heritage and culture at Festival Sundiata on Saturday and Sunday at Seattle Center. Festival Sundiata at Seattle Center shares traditions of Africa and African Americans 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

But its subject is actually much broader: the hundreds of years of African-American experience from enslavement to the present. ‘Transformation: Rhythm’s Roots’ Explores Black History 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

In college, my experience was not all that different, although my first real boyfriend was a black man whose father was from Ghana and whose mother was African-American. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Boyd weaves the lives of standout African-American figures into this history of the city, tracing its evolution from a French trading post to a symbol of decline. New in Paperback: ‘Black Detroit,’ ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’ 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The annual festival celebrates African and African-American arts and educates the community. A&E highlights: Festivals celebrating dance, African-American culture and beer 2013-06-05T21:23:11Z

And he takes great pains to emphasize that African-Americans almost inevitably agitated for more than just law-enforcement solutions to the problems facing their neighborhoods — they argued for job and housing programs, improvements in education. ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

At a screening of Douglas Sirk’s movie “Imitation of Life,” about an African-American girl who, to her grief, passed for white, a white soldier in the audience laughed. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

He had maintained relationships with the Gates and Agee families, and he says the killings, and their dreadful aftermath, were instrumental in making him want to look at the violence plaguing the African-American community. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

Offscreen, African-American dancers trained white performers; onscreen, the blues and jazz filled soundtracks and white stars like Astaire and Shirley Temple appeared in blackface. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Architects should not contribute their expertise to the most egregious aspects of a system that commits exceptional violence against African-Americans and other minorities. There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Minority groups, especially African-Americans, are seen as subhuman, “mud people,” as they are sometimes called. Behind Dylann Roof’s race war: The highly motivated secret white supremacy movement working toward “the battle of Armageddon” 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Struggle and resilience, spiritual uplift and lowdown fun: the old verities of African-American modern dance have not been abandoned in Colorado. Dance Review: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble at Lincoln Center 2012-08-13T22:42:52Z

Several are debut novels from young African-American writers who have turned to fiction as a form of activism, hoping that their stories can help frame and illuminate the persistence of racial injustice for young readers. New Crop of Young Adult Novels Explores Race and Police Brutality 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

His 2017 track The Story of OJ, for example, spoke about race and wealth, with an accompanying cartoon video parodying vintage African-American stereotypes. How Jay-Z’s new docuseries on Trayvon Martin exposes America 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

Ralph Bunche, the venerable diplomat and the first African-American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, disavowed King’s “radicality” with all the dignity befitting his station. The “macroethics” of Martin Luther King Jr.: When he spoke out against the Vietnam War even his supporters deserted him — here’s how he endured 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The discovery shocked the region's black community because of the cemetery's special significance to African-Americans. Burr Oak manager sent to prison for 12 years 2011-10-31T20:11:00Z

“I don’t think the field was ready actually to publish African-American artists or writers that way.” ?The Snowy Day,? Art of Ezra Jack Keats at Jewish Museum 2011-12-08T23:38:16Z

But the smoothness of “Jumping the Broom,” which takes its name from an African-American wedding custom dating back to slavery, is a bit of a problem. | 'Jumping the Broom': 2 Families Put Asunder Just Before the ?I Dos? 2011-05-06T04:53:01Z

They weren’t going to leave and be reminded of Indians, the way they are with African-Americans, who are just present in the culture in a much different way. Seeing Native Americans Nowhere, and Everywhere 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

To mark Black History Month online, PBS.org will offer "Behind the Lens," about photographer Eunique Jones Gibson's portrayals of prominent African-Americans as youngsters. PBS' 'American Masters' to profile Alice Walker 2014-01-22T13:59:18Z

Ms. Chatman noted that reality television often showcases African-Americans, but since that genre is often about over-the-top performances, she said, it isn’t “particularly representative or flattering.” Heady Stakes for ‘Black-ish’ on ABC 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Aaron McGruder moves his satire of contemporary African-American life from comic strips and animation to live actors with “Black Jesus,” his new series for Adult Swim, beginning Thursday night. Slink Johnson Is ‘Black Jesus’ on Adult Swim 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

This summer was my seventh on the island, and I was itching for a proper tour of the African-American Oak Bluffs. Martha’s Vineyard Has a Nourishing Magic for Black Americans 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

She seeks a comparable sensuality in her pictures of African-American women, whom she regards as reflections of herself. Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Registered TSA complaint today: Another one to add to the pile: The New York Times reports on the alleged rise of African-American women being targeted by airport security for hair pat-downs. Five pop culture items we missed 2011-08-16T22:30:00Z

For a series of paintings called Black Light, she eliminated white from her palette and added black pigment to colors in a group of African-American portraits. Art Review: An Era?s Injustices Fuel an Artist?s Activist Works 2010-12-09T22:20:00Z

Some of the details in the book, like the coercion of African-American prisoners to participate in C.I.A. experiments, are astounding. When the C.I.A. Was Into Mind Control 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

The Green Book, which was published for 30 years, listed largely black-owned eateries, hotels, gas stations, stores, nightclubs and other businesses where African-Americans were welcome. Highways Through Hell 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Avery said that he didn’t mind work that deals with difficult subjects like race, but said that for the first 25 years of his career, African-American artists brought work to him that reinforced stereotypes. Overlooked in Atlanta, Black Female Artists Try Miami 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

He’s a middle-aged African-American man who favors suits and ties and presents a genial boardroom demeanor. Can legal weed save the newspaper business? Wait — what was the question? 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z

The Wiz is an adaptation of The Wizard of Oz featuring an all African-American cast, with new music and a new perspective. NBC Plans To Stage 'The Wiz' Live On TV And To Bring It Back To Broadway 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

In this light, African-American documentary is a powerful tool. 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

“They still have cultural resonance among all classes of African-Americans,” Professor Gates said. Ebony Looks to Its Past as It Modernizes 2012-12-08T00:10:24Z

He was a street poet, an African-American surrealist and one of the original Beats — he founded a magazine with Allen Ginsberg. Two Poets With Alert and Nimble Eyes on American Life 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

And I don’t think it was just African-American intellectuals or white liberals who wanted to believe that this moment meant we were something better than we were, that anyone believed it would solve everything. “Maybe it is not that you couldn’t. It is that you wouldn’t”: Michael Eric Dyson reflects on Obama’s complicated legacy on race 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

“Fences” is part of a cycle of 10 plays about the African-American experience that amounts to a critique of the American dream from the standpoint of people intent on defying their exclusion from it. Review: Beneath the Bombast, ‘Fences’ Has an Aching Poetry 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“The most important aspect is that the collection adds to the American story of twentieth-century art—not the African-American story but the American story.” The Met Embraces Neglected Southern Artists 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Last week, two African-American artists who were represented by the N’Namdis in the past, James Little and Richard Mayhew, stepped forward to tell The New York Times about their own issues with the gallery. Race, Loyalty and Transparency in an Artist’s Lawsuit 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Davis worried that the focus on representation in African-American roles robbed them of their ability to be relatable. The Carpetbagger: Viola Davis on a Mind-Set That Harms Black Actors 2012-02-14T13:30:08Z

There are a lot of films about the African-American experience from different points of view, which I think is really interesting. Standing up for 'the silent heroes' 2013-11-15T11:55:52Z

“She knew a lot of those African-American mariners, who were called Black jacks,” Larson said. Archaeologists Solve a Decades-Old Harriet Tubman Mystery 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

An example comes at the close of the show in photographs of a performance piece organized in 1983 by the artist Lorraine O’Grady for an African-American Day Parade in Harlem. Radiant and Radical: 20 Years of Defining the Soul of Black Art 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The relationship comedy with a predominantly African-American cast won the weekend with a rousing $33 million, according to studios’ preliminary estimates. Think Like a Man Snaps The Hunger Games' Streak 2012-04-22T20:46:05Z

But I am black — African-American, if you will — and unambiguously of African heritage. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Given the cultural pull toward religion, less than one-half of a percent of African-Americans identify themselves as atheists, compared with 1.6 percent of the total population, according to Pew. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

In 1835, a gang of students descended on the town’s African-American neighborhood in an attempt to lynch a white agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society who had come to address a secret meeting. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

According to my father, “the primary example of suffering Christianity in this country was the experience of African-American slaves.” My search for Creflo Dollar 2013-01-06T23:00:00Z

Though his work often celebrated his African-American heritage, Alvin Ailey’s vision transcended both race and genre. Dance: With New Director, Ailey Says It?s Open to Change 2010-04-28T22:37:00Z

Obama told me that he was quite conscious of the great tradition of African-American memoir and knew that he had a more modest story to tell. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

A division of Viacom, BET is the leading television network for African-American audiences. Justin Bieber among black entertainment nominees 2010-05-18T22:31:00Z

Its holdings in American modernism are very different from those at the Whitney or the Museum of Modern Art, with, among other things, a concentration of work by African-Americans. Art Review: Some of Simon Ottenberg’s Gifts in ‘The Art of Translation’ 2013-08-15T21:58:16Z

The dry stone walls in Kentucky are often called “slave walls,” because many of them were built by African-American slaves working on the farms. Design: Dazzling Ingenuity of the Dry Stone Wall 2011-10-09T12:48:09Z

Sophia is also a transgender African-American woman, but there the similarities kind of end. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z

The methodology and data of his research were discredited by other economists, but Levitt stuck to his original conclusion linking race and crime: fewer African-American children correlates to less crime. Freakonomics author Steven Levitt: Corporate shill? 2012-06-16T15:59:00Z

“Scandal” is a natural fit for BET, given that the channel seeks an African-American audience and the show ranks No. 1 among all broadcast series among African-Americans. ‘Scandal’ to Be Quickly Syndicated on BET 2013-07-15T21:32:07Z

He’s kind of a maestro of blues and African-American classical music. An Artist Who Makes Paintings Without a Canvas 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

He also thought a lot about “the opportunity I had to reach kids who might otherwise turn away from math,” he writes, “especially African-American kids, who had too few examples of black mathematicians.” He quit the NFL for a career in math. It wasn’t just about the concussions. 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He spent 21 more years as Lake County Sheriff, before he was indicted in an unrelated case where he killed yet another African-American prisoner in his care. 'Devil in the Grove': Thurgood Marshall's battle with deadly injustice 2012-03-21T22:59:06Z

And the rider in “Rumors of War,” a young African-American man with a knot of dreadlocks in a hoodie and ripped jeans, reflects a similar effort to reclaim history. Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

I met a young, African-American transgender college student at the very first Free Mom Hugs Transgender Valentines Banquet in Oklahoma City. This Mother Strives to Change the World, One Hug at a Time 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

“Dancing Through Harlem,” created for the yearly Harlem Week festival and the African-American Day Parade, is both a tribute to the neighborhood in which it was filmed and a celebration of pure dance. Dancing in the Streets of Harlem, and Gathering to Dance, Merce-Style 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

She is the first African-American woman to be nominated in the category in 30 years, and only the fifth in Emmy history. Elizabeth Warren and Tracee Ellis Ross on the Road to Activism 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

For Smith, the film “offered the chance to create subtleties and specificities that you normally don’t get in African-American animated characters.” ‘Hair Love’: 3 Men and a Little Girl (With a Lot of Curls) 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

He is also doubling down on the work he has been doing for 20 years: helping historically African-American communities rediscover history that’s been erased through abandonment or demolished by urban renewal. Building Public Places for a Covid World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

At a fairgrounds booth called the Old Plantation, for example, African-Americans played the parts of slaves picking cotton. Echoes of an Exposition, and an Assassination 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and Native Americans were usually not allowed to enter these competitions because the very concepts of “beauty” and “femininity” were understood as being exclusive to white women. Condemn white supremacy? Great! But no special credit, white people 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Ailey described African-American cultural heritage as “sometimes sorrowful, sometimes jubilant, but always hopeful,” viewing it as one of America’s richest treasures. Juneteenth: 7 Events for Celebrating the Holiday in New York 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

It's based on relationships between white families and their African-American maids in the segregated South of the 1960s. Hearing scheduled in 'The Help' lawsuit in Miss. 2011-08-09T23:15:08Z

I have represented women,African-Americans, Hispanics, and others in these cases, but here is what troubles me. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas financed the $58 million movie, which the major studios didn’t want to touch, because of the box office limitations of its mostly African-American cast. | 'Red Tails': ?Red Tails,? George Lucas?s Tale of Tuskegee Airmen - Review 2012-01-19T13:00:00Z

As extraordinary as that trauma might be for most Americans, the show portrays the sort of everyday violence to which African-Americans and Latinos, of various classes, are vulnerable. What TV Says About Race and Money 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Ava DuVernay points out that, just 50 years ago, the only African-Americans with access to movie cameras were those who went to film school. 'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

It’s also a reminder that the plurality of Washington’s residents — about 45 percent — are African-American. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

And some nonbelieving African-Americans have been known to attend church out of tradition. African-American Atheists 2011-11-25T23:54:27Z

For African-Americans, domestic and international exploration used to be filled with significant roadblocks. Personal Journeys: Traveling While Black 2014-01-03T19:31:34Z

She wrote in an email that she wanted to see how great African-American poets would respond to Lawrence’s work — his colors and compositions. Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration Series Returns to MoMA 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Located where African-American poverty was already concentrated, the Chicago high rises replaced barely habitable slum dwellings — wood-frame firetraps frequently without plumbing, heat or adequate sanitation. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

The debt owed by country music to African-American artists is regularly underscored, too. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

The DoJ found that “African-Americans experience disparate impact in nearly every aspect of Ferguson’s law enforcement system”. Whose Streets? Powerful Ferguson film focuses on ‘flashpoint moment’ 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Black and brown folks, especially African-Americans, have saved this country and its democracy many times. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Though open to any invitee with at least one passport stamp, the vast majority of Nomadness members are African-Americans and women. Black Travel Groups Find Kindred Spirits on Social Networks 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

But it is a raw, passionate ode about racial identity, a young African-American boy’s dreams of becoming a famous scientist and the anguish roiling inside him. Daemond Arrindell returns poetry to the people 2013-04-05T01:39:16Z

If “August” were set a few states over — say in Mississippi — Johnna would be African-American, not so much for demographic as for symbolic reasons. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z

Sandra Green Thomas, president of the GU272 Descendants Association, told worshippers no other group had shown more faith in the U.S. promise of freedom than African-Americans. Georgetown University renames buildings to atone for slavery ties 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

We are also African-American, the majority of us. Andre Iguodala on the Business of Basketball 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

For purposes of policing Blacks’ access to firearms, differences in legal status between African-Americans who were free and those who were enslaved were often swept aside. Was the Constitutional Right to Bear Arms Designed to Protect Slavery? 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z

The character was talking about African-American, rather then African or American-African writers, and this distinction is also partly what the novel is about. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on 'Americanah' 2013-06-06T14:50:36Z

“Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. May she rest in power. #RememberHerName” — Billie Jean King, via Twitter. Barack Obama, Beyonce, others react to Toni Morrison’s death 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

But the silence and hostility with which African-American performers have often been greeted by the country establishment needs even greater emphasis. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

The “One Dark Night” project was introduced during a time when non-indictments, Black Lives Matter and police armed with riot gear were becoming branded into the collective memory of a generation of African-Americans. Black pain isn’t a video game: The possibilities and pitfalls of virtual reality in the Black Lives Matter era 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z

“And her critique of the prison system, and its effects on the African-American community, was prophetic.” A New Home for Angela Davis’s Papers (and Her ‘Wanted’ Poster) 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

It addresses that aspirational moment in the hearts and feelings of African-Americans and minorities who walk around every day, thinking—knowing—that there are two Americas, and there have always been two Americas. On Being Seen: An Interview with Claudia Rankine from Ferguson 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

In Us, the central characters happen to be African-American, but their skin colour is of little relevance. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

He became the first African-American and the youngest person to be nominated for an Academy award for best director, at age 24, for the movie. U.S. film director John Singleton to be taken off life support: family 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

He was the first African-American, if you count stepping foot as being an African-American. "Black AF History" author on whitewashing the past: "They have tried every way possible to erase us" 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z

And the vast majority of the African-Americans who joined the British forces neither fled in terror nor went to the grave. God is a weapon 2012-06-21T14:00:00Z

Still, at the matinee performance I saw recently, I sat near several African-American women who were enjoying it immensely. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z

Sliding from grit to surrealism, from pawnshops to mansions, “Atlanta” created a diorama of African-American life in its title city and a testament to the weirdness of existence. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Crowded with vigorous, brightly attired individuals and spiced with telling details and background scenes, these imposing paintings — two measure 20 feet across — confer an inspiring optimism on different moments from African-American history. Art Review: Hale Woodruff’s Talladega Murals, in ‘Rising Up,’ at N.Y.U. 2013-08-15T21:36:28Z

The history of African-Americans contains many such people, and the academy loves history. What Does the Academy Value in a Black Performance? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

And she argued in a USA Today column that “America taught our son’s killer to hate African-Americans.” Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

Also to Thermes’s credit: She doesn’t shy from the dark chapters of Manhattan’s history, like the fate of Seneca Village, the middle-class African-American community destroyed when the city claimed the land for Central Park. Enticing Books for Every Kid This Holiday Season 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Right On Be Free” spotlights fiery turns by female vocalists, reinforcing the traditional role of African-American women as community spokespeople. 50 Years Ago, They Did Something Rare in Gospel: Tied Music to Protest 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

Much of it reads like a nightmare, a dense and turbid vision of African-American history, a tortured questioning of how to survive as a black man in a white world, in Ailey’s day and now. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

As the first white fashion director of the lifestyle magazine targeting African-American women, Ms. Placas found herself embroiled in controversy. On the Runway Blog: Essence Fashion Editor Departs 2012-07-30T21:20:09Z

The annexe was home to African-Americans and international students from the Asian subcontinent, budding intellectuals and aspiring writers, party animals, surfer dudes and jocks. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

The killing of unarmed African-Americans at the hands of police is not new, of course. Review: ‘They Can’t Kill Us All’ Tallies the Unarmed Black Men Shot by Police 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Part of it is connected to what African-American citizens, African-American students on campus, think is bearable… I’m not at all disturbed by this conversation: I think they’re fully entitled to have their say. The case against Thomas Jefferson: “We have not had a public reckoning yet, with slavery and the Civil War” 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

The main character of Marguerite de Angeli’s “Bright April” was, like Hayden, an African-American girl who joins the Brownie Girl Scouts. Carla Hayden Takes Charge of the World’s Largest Library 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

The moral conundrum of drug dealing among African-Americans was addressed mostly by Curtis Mayfield’s superb soundtrack, which functioned as a kind of Greek chorus. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

“Certain art in our culture depicts a down feeling about how African-American people are treated,” Mr. Cosby told The Washington Post in 1997. Varnette Honeywood, Whose Art Appeared on ?Cosby Show,? Dies at 59 2010-09-16T15:09:00Z

Trica Danielle Keaton, a Vanderbilt University associate professor in African-American studies who wrote a book about Muslim girls in Pantin, recalls taking residents to the Eiffel Tower for their first visit. A Concert Hall in Paris Aims to Bridge Divides 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

It was a teenage interaction in 1960 with an African-American stranger that helped lead Dr. Madhubuti to his own education and career as a poet, publisher and academic. Haki Madhubuti, the Book Publisher on the South Side 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Lawrence acknowledges the social barriers the migrants met with from whites and, as one panel notes, from a small African-American elite in the cities. SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

It’s also a driven, sometimes experimental, often wacky and decidedly serious examination of what stratospheric success means to African-Americans who find themselves with more options than they ever imagined, but also lonely at the top. Music of Heartache, Mortality and Success 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z

These were buildings where, years before, Jewish and Italian immigrants settled, replaced by African-Americans and Latinos. Essex Crossing Is the Anti-Hudson Yards 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

“Genre, like gender, is a social construct,” proclaims Rivers Solomon, an African-American writer, on the author’s website. The Coming of Age of Transgender Literature 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

He took the train to meet with Wilson in Pittsburgh, the writer’s hometown, where most of his 10-play cycle depicting African-American life in the 20th century is set. The Long, Long Road to Building ‘Fences’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

I was the only Asian guy in the room for that, and that was written I think originally for an African-American character. “I can’t play a nerd”: Ross Butler plays Reggie on “Riverdale” 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

City Ballet has had only one African-American Apollo — once. A Ballet Hamlet Becomes a God (Apollo, That Is) 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“There’s no person in that writing team who knows anything about African-American culture and jazz,” he said. Shakespeare, Swing and Louis Armstrong. So What Went Wrong? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

And taken as such, it rings hollow to many at a time when violence is hammering African-Americans. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

It was the recent opening of an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the city’s premier showcase for African-American art. The Studio Museum Has a Vision for Its Home. And a Power Player at the Helm. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Railroad imagery – and other dreams of free transit and unencumbered movement – proliferates throughout African-American culture and politics, from Soul Train to People Get Ready. Underground is the history lesson America (and Ben Carson) needs 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Since the end of the Great Migration in the 1960s, the African-American experience has been represented as almost exclusively urban. Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

The great majority of performers were African-American men. All Jooked Up With Everywhere to Go 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

IN 1995, a century and a half after it was founded by supporters of slavery, the Southern Baptist Convention apologised to African-Americans. Dipped in controversy 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Ms. Copeland’s struggle, since she started at 13, has been to reconcile the African-American culture in which she was raised with the world of ballet. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

Bowie generated so much credibility with MTV’s audience that he was able to challenge the network’s lack of diversity in an interview with VJ Mark Goodman, wondering why it didn’t air more African-American artists. How David Bowie Went Mainstream 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

She wrote “Mules and Men,” a collection of African-American folklore. A Work by Zora Neale Hurston Will Finally Be Published 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

“You look at the W.N.B.A., and a high percentage of the league is African-American women,” Ms. Cash said. W.N.B.A. Stars Try to Move Up to Fashion’s Front Row 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the logic of antiracism threatens to erase some of the nuances of African-American history. Fighting Racism Even, and Especially, Where We Don’t Realize It Exists 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

You’ve been in productions of five works in Wilson’s African-American cycle. | Brandon J. Dirden: Brandon J. Dirden Talks About ‘The Piano Lesson’ 2012-12-30T04:47:21Z

Audience turnout was just as high as last week, however, indicating there’s significant interest in the first African-American Hedwig on Broadway. Broadway Box Office 7/27: Jim Parsons Is Worth $1 Million, 'Hamilton' Even More 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mason, who lives in Boulder, Colo., started the project in part to highlight the diverse styles of African-American choreographers, to challenge the notion of a monolithic genre called “black dance.” Review: A Living Archive of Contemporary Black Dance 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

The episode takes twists and turns, exploring Twain’s complicated relationship with African-Americans, in both his life and his fiction, as well as the racist language that he used in his work. The Story of America, Told Through Mark Twain’s Favorite Foods 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

"Certainly, swearing isn't exclusive to African-Americans," Terry wrote. What's in a name? Shedding racist images and branding is just the start of breaking the Jemima Code 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

This book is believed to be one of the first cookbooks written by an African-American woman, former slave Abby Fisher. 7 best tips for water bath canning 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Fewer than 3 percent of licensed architects in the United States are African-American. There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Entering each other’s orbit would indeed be difficult for Mr. Kedem, an Israeli-American living in Brooklyn, and Ms. Woods, an African-American from Birmingham, Ala., living in Manhattan, who was 10 years his junior. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Drawn to Each Other’s Worlds 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Situated between Princeton and Trenton, it serves a wide public, including a range of African-American and immigrant communities. Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Holder, who is the first African-American attorney general, struggles to be diplomatic. Eric Holder gets real about heroin and race: It’s a crisis because white people are hooked 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Evers for fear that he might anger the jury, since, under Jim Crow, such courtesies were routinely withheld from African-Americans. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

These policies would give rise to the first African-American and Jewish sororities — founded at Howard University and Barnard — which remain vibrant today. When a Feminist Pledges a Sorority 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

SECOR: If you were to look at the family of country music, it includes a lot of African-American musicians. Talkin’ Fifty Years of Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde” 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

My closest Korean-American friend back in Brooklyn is married to my husband’s college roommate, who is African-American. A Look at Korea’s Culture From the Bathhouse 2014-02-07T19:35:43Z

While his African-American identity is an important dimension, it does not always drive the plot. With Meghan Markle and Patrick J. Adams Gone, ‘Suits’ Retailors Itself 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

While searching for their bodies, dozens more slain African-Americans were pulled from the river. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

Its creator, April Reign, became a target, with some accusing her campaign of also not being inclusive of other minorities besides African-Americans. After Oscars, Hashtags Ask: Does One Minority Group Have to Fight for Another? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

The towering bronze sculpture, titled “Brick House,” depicts an African-American woman with braids whose torso evokes a skirt-like house. An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

And yet for an African-American ballerina, these moments really are huge — larger than her own self. Books of The Times: Jenifer Ringer and Misty Copeland Have New Memoirs 2014-03-16T21:00:25Z

When Mollie Digby, the 17-month-old daughter of Irish immigrants, was reported to have been kidnapped by two African-American women on June 9, 1870, the case immediately became enmeshed in broader social and political tensions. Michael A. Ross's 'Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case' 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

She and Ms. Williamson are also avid collectors of blaxploitation film posters and of comic books, stamps and coins with an African-American flavor. ‘Funky Turns 40’ Show Recalls a Seminal TV Moment 2014-03-19T17:25:11Z

"African-American singers now embrace and love the piece, they want to be in it, and see it," he says. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z

She described the story as "an African-American Oliver Twist". Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z

He also defended his support for African-American art and said a vote in March in favor of renewing the property tax earmarked for the museum was a strong show of community approval for his achievements. Complaint Faults Museum Director for Hanging His In-Law’s El Greco 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Since joining the MoMA board in 2012, A C Hudgins, a black collector of African-American art, has flown on private planes in the company of fellow trustees, something he had never done before. The Disrupters: Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z

Her search is especially daunting because her mother is African-American and her father is Hispanic, from the Dominican Republic. B'way to hold drive for sick 'Lion King' kid star 2010-07-22T09:31:00Z

But given that lynchings have historically been directed by whites against African-Americans, the introduction is mortifyingly tone-deaf. ‘Son of the South’ Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

We spoke to Angela Shaw-Thornburg, a scholar of American and African-American literature at South Carolina State University, about the book, its characters, and what they all tell us about where America is now. Harper Lee’s lingering Civil War ghosts: “Go Set a Watchman” is “a very accurate perspective of what’s going on here in the South” 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

The museum documenting African-American life, art, history and culture is scheduled to open in 2016. Ohio company to wall for national museum 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Lee has consistently depicted the African-American community as consumed by hypocrisy, corruption, shallow materialism and self-hatred. “Chi-Raq”: Spike Lee’s blistering, outrageous satirical assault on a society consumed by violence 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Some African-American artists have made direct challenges to its whitewashed nostalgia. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Leann leaks a picture of Frank’s dad in a compromising position just as the president is trying to court the African-American vote in South Carolina. Neve Campbell: ‘Everything about US politics makes me proud to be Canadian’ 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Harambee means “let us pull together” in Swahili, and they do just that artistically by combining African and African-American movement, contemporary dance and percussion. Dance Listings for July 18-20 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

One family is mixed marriage, and the next door neighbors are African-American members of a minstrel show in black face. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Squirming in the Seats 2011-04-11T12:00:11Z

Ms. Russell, a vocalist, sings classic jazz and other African-American repertory with ardent precision. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

But what got the room interested, was the idea that ‘Wow, here’s an African-American dancer at one of the top companies in her world.’ The Rise and Rise of Misty Copeland 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Her children are described as fair-skinned African-Americans with black hair and brown eyes. Cops: Missing Aurora woman tracked to Ind. 2012-02-17T15:24:00Z

Film’s first African-American star so perfected his comically lazy character that it became a widely offensive stereotype that halted his career. ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ examines alliance between Muhammad Ali, Stepin Fetchit

An African-American, he supports teaching this history in classrooms, but opposes “violent images that are offensive to certain communities,” he said. These High School Murals Depict an Ugly History. Should They Go? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

No one was focussing on the issues at hand: police shootings; a judicial system systematically biased against African-Americans; an educational system desperately in need of reform; racial injustice. Malcolm Jenkins’s Message for Those Not Listening 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

And it’s a narrative in which the African-American feminist professor now winds up cast in the role of bully. Why you should never engage with an abortion protester 2014-03-14T14:11:00Z

Stories about the African-American experience–stories whose casting would presumably expand the options for actors of color–are as good a place as any to start. Bold and Fraught, The Birth of a Nation Merits Your Attention 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

A room focused on the election of 1800 features silhouettes of those excluded from voting in early America, including women, enslaved African-Americans, Native Americans and poor whites. A New Kind of ‘Hamilton’ Show, This Time on Lake Michigan 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, the idea that there just weren’t enough candidates — especially when put forth by a comedian who is himself African-American — drew near-instant criticism and suggestions for people who prove Thompson wrong. Kerry Washington, Kenan Thompson and Black Women on SNL 2013-10-17T09:45:26Z

Griffith epic drama, but is a very different story and is told from an African-American perspective. 'Birth of a Nation' slavery movie stumbles in Hollywood 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

The African-American museum’s new web portal, Talking About Race, is especially helpful in starting difficult conversations. Digital Field Trips: Museum Adventures Abound for Kids 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Health disparities and maltreatment by medical professionals have deep roots that are affecting, understandably, the willingness of African-Americans to consider the Covid-19 vaccine. Staring Down the Stigma of Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

If the film makes a similar splash in such overseas markets as it's being allowed to access, African-American romcoms might just possibly become the next medium-sized thing. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

Art with African or African-American origins is quickly gaining wider audiences across America. African horizons 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

That is the laboratory where the "human computers" -- the women who did the data processing and analysis, including the segregated group of African-American women -- were working. Author of Neil Armstrong biography "First Man": He understood "the place of humankind in the cosmos" 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

The script is set during the social and racial tumult of 1960s Newark, New Jersey, and will focus on tensions between ethnic Italians and African-Americans. 'The Sopranos' to make a comeback - in a big screen prequel 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Spalding, a composer whose phrasing and lyrics are unusual, is part Hispanic, African-American, and Native American. Esperanza Spalding brings Grammy-winning jazz to Europe 2011-03-31T13:46:03Z

Thank you for not only addressing an issue relevant to thousands across America, but also providing relief through resources for atheist African-Americans looking for a sense of community. Letters: Letters on Black-Atheists Article 2011-12-03T00:12:22Z

And Ms. Austin, 33, is of African-American and Guyanese descent; her maternal grandfather was a lord mayor of Georgetown, the capital of Guyana. She Met Her Prince (for Real!) at a D.C. Nightclub 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Its first concert series, Soundtrack of America, will celebrate not the European classical sphere but the heritage of African-American music across a broad historical and stylistic spectrum, from spirituals to hip-hop. The Shed Opens With a Purpose. And a Party. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

He believes that African-American students, even those from affluent backgrounds, are also discouraged by the dearth of black role models. Design: Design Gets More Diverse 2011-03-20T22:30:06Z

In 1993 he and Victoria Norman founded the African-American Theater Program at the University of Louisville, to develop core courses for the study of African-American theater. City College to Support New Theater Uptown 2011-05-29T22:14:08Z

Five percent of models cast were African-American, Hispanic or Asian, an increase of only one percentage point over the previous year. Losing Their Clothes, Finding Themselves 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

Aretha Franklin, who appeared on the dance and TV show, called his death "sad, stunning and downright shocking and a huge and momentous loss to the African-American community and the world at large." "Soul Train" creator Don Cornelius commits suicide 2012-02-02T01:53:59Z

I knew that I wanted to find an African-American modern dance company for Africa in order to demonstrate sensitivity to African traditions but also show advancements into contemporary sensibilities. Evidence, ODC and Urban Bush Women Dance for Diplomacy 2010-03-20T03:34:00Z

I organized African-American women across the nation to do fund-raising events to support the candidates. Star Jones Puts Her Spin on a New A-List 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Feeling that she didn’t fit in because of her mixed ethnic heritage — African-American, Chinese and Cuban — Hernandez eventually discovered hip-hop as her vehicle of self-expression. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

One 2004 survey found that many poor African-Americans used emergency rooms to seek treatment to mask the real reason they were there. Modern life is killing us 2012-08-11T13:30:00Z

Its predominantly African-American Hill District was the forcing ground of the playwright August Wilson, who paid such tender and respectful attention to lives there. John Edgar Wideman’s Stories Vividly Evoke Life in Pittsburgh and Many Other Places 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

By then it was already deeply entrenched in the African-American consciousness, a standard in churches around the country. Music that declared an era 2013-08-23T16:38:51Z

The play, “N*W*C,” whose full title is three racial slurs, stars three actors of African-American, Asian and Latino descent as they reflect on their conflicted experience with race in America. A Charged Title. A Canceled Show. Now a Cal State Official Resigns. 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Which is why so many African-Americans around my age are excited about “Luke Cage.” Hope and a black superhero: From the despair of “New Jack City” to the “Luke Cage” revolution 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Young African-American singers will no doubt be lining up early at Pearl Studios on Monday morning for auditions. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Super Fly' Musical Struts a Step Closer To the New York Stage 2011-09-09T23:04:38Z

Signer took a middle-of-the-road position, expressing support for leaving the statue in place but acknowledging prominent African-Americans in memorials elsewhere in the city and putting Lee in a less heroic context. Tested by Tragedy, Two Politicians Review Their Records — Mistakes Included 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

Which may be partly why the foothold that African-Americans manage to gain in Hollywood from one generation to the next can seem so fragile, and progress so easily reversible. Hollywood, Separate and Unequal 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

But on the other hand, these crimes disproportionately impacted black communities, and so it was kind of a mixed result for African-American people. When anti-violence backfires 2012-06-02T15:00:00Z

The first case involved a 36-year-old African-American woman who lived on the outskirts of Anniston, the county’s largest town, and had a daughter she was putting through college. Take a valium, lose your kid, go to jail 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Data from Louisiana, Illinois and Michigan earlier this month showed that African-Americans are dying at a much higher rate than the U.S. population at large. America's hip-hop community takes on coronavirus 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

About a third of manufacturing workers are women, and African-American men are slightly overrepresented in the sector versus their share of the overall workforce. Reviving manufacturing would help all of us—not just white men 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

Equally unusual are restaurant chefs of Mr. Mackbee’s training who learned to cook New Orleans cuisine at home — through recipes that descend directly from African-American home cooks of the Jim Crow era. Two Chefs Moved to Rural Minnesota to Expand on Their Mission of Racial Justice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

A walking tour from the group Big Onion, which begins in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will guide visitors through Harlem, a neighborhood that is central to African-American history. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 8 Places in New York to Remember His Legacy 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

“It’s great,” says the Academy’s first African-American president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

In "The Butler," which deals with race issues and opens in U.S. theaters on Friday, Winfrey plays the wife of an African-American butler who worked at the White House for eight U.S. presidents. Oprah Winfrey 'sorry' for reaction to Swiss handbag incident 2013-08-13T16:43:19Z

And you surely wouldn't then casually reference a racial slur and then recount the days when "people used to drag African-Americans from trucks until they died." From Billboard exec John Amato to Papa John Schnatter: Demanding change from toxic men is exhausting 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Thelma Golden, its director, said she was struck by Ms. Leigh’s “commitment to her medium, the way she was invested in clay — its history, its connection to African Art and African-American art.” An Artist Ascendant: Simone Leigh Moves Into the Mainstream 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

In other words — as it also does in confronting racism against African-Americans, including by Asians — the book tackles perhaps predictable conflicts, but then deepens with every turn. Superman Returns, to Beat Up the Klan 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

I know the complications of this, involving alumni giving, for instance… But I don’t think African-American students should be required or even invited to live in a residence hall named after Woodrow Wilson. The case against Thomas Jefferson: “We have not had a public reckoning yet, with slavery and the Civil War” 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

To describe Thomas Allen Harris’s “Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” as a history of African-American photography would be accurate but incomplete. ‘Through a Lens Darkly,’ on African-American Photography 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Despite working odd jobs with night-shift hours, including as a factory worker, Ms. Waithe’s mother found time to enroll her children at Turner-Drew, an acclaimed magnet elementary school that was almost entirely African-American. With ‘The Chi,’ Lena Waithe Heads Home in Search of the Real Chicago 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

"If you thought that movie was going to accurately explain the ins and outs of African-American slavery, I think you came into it with the wrong expectations," he says. John Legend talks 'Love In The Future' 2013-04-17T00:14:07Z

Mr. Owens, the bass-baritone singing Porgy, said that he viewed the work as “one part of an African-American experience.” The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Her new book is one of half a dozen recent studies of how African-Americans were historically depicted. Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z

One woman and one man are African-American, the same makeup as the jury for the first trial. Bill Cosby Returns to Court. Here’s Why His Retrial Is No Repeat. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson, 50, who grew up in Milwaukee and founded the company Fist & Heel Performance Group in 1989, has long explored spiritual traditions in his own work, particularly within African and African-American cultures. Take Me to Church and Let Me Dance 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

Nazarene was considered a “mink coat church” at the time, Tillard said, with an educated, affluent African-American congregation. A Guide to Exploring Jackie Robinson’s Brooklyn 2013-04-11T14:31:54Z

Politics peeks through, at moments: a photograph of a white police officer watching the proceedings; an advertisement for Colt 45 Malt Liquor, which targeted low-income African-American neighborhoods. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

A pair of African-American women engage in investigative tenderness: not overtly sexual but unmistakably intimate. At the Joyce, a Rearranged Theater Brings Mystery and Orthodoxy 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

The idea of a national African-American museum was conceived by black Civil War veterans more than a century ago. The Smithsonian’s African-American Museum: A Guide to the Opening 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Yet African-Americans are one of the fastest-growing travel markets. Black Travel Groups Find Kindred Spirits on Social Networks 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

Katherine is there with her two other African-American friends and colleagues. “Hidden Figures” Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

These elements nimbly play out within “The People v. O.J. Simpson’s” 10 episodes alongside issues such as gender and cultural bias in the workplace, and intra-racial tension within the African-American community. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

The story begins with a street-corner killing and unfurls to examine the people inside the surrounding African-American neighborhood. What’s on TV Sunday: The Golden Globes and ‘The Chi’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

In it the young, bronzed Diesel gets turned down for a beer commercial by an African-American director. Vin Diesel: The Film Star Of The Future 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

In another indication of just how far Sundance operates from the center of the commercial movie business, many of the competition selections star Hispanic and African-American actors. Carpetbagger: Eclectic as Ever, Sundance Unveils Competition Lineup 2011-11-30T21:00:03Z

My departure might seem a trivial point until you consider that nearly 1,000 African-American journalists have left newsrooms in the last decade. Can the black middle class survive? 2012-09-03T14:00:00Z

Especially in African-American religious communities, that is not an unusual view at all. Ben Carson’s oddball appeal: “The right has not traditionally wanted black conservatives who are all over the map” 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

I also wanted to put an Asian-American person and African-American person in the same room, because we don’t see that very often. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Reading With Patrick’ 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Dance in America today abounds in examples of inventive, ebullient African-American dance idioms — Memphis jookin and Detroit Jit are just two — but you won’t find the best aspects of this modernity in the Ailey repertory. Talking About Love, Demonstrating Violence 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Back then, movies that told stories of the African-American plight weren’t really common, so when you saw one, you would go back and do the work and find out more. A Play About Racism’s Aftershocks Returns With New Resonance 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

After a stint at Oxford as the first African-American Rhodes scholar, Locke returned to Harvard and earned a Ph.D. in philosophy. The Philosopher Who Believed That Art Was Key to Black Liberation 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

One is the sophistication of the African-American tradition, which stretches back over 100 years in an unbroken line from New Orleans marching bands to bebop, funk, soul and rock. Melbourne jazz festival 2013: reviews and weekend highlights 2013-06-07T02:01:13Z

The Met’s stated purpose was to attract African-American visitors, a neglected constituency, to the museum. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Impressively and happily, the evening’s big success was made by Kyle Abraham, an African-American choreographer who comes from the world of modern dance. ‘We, the Dancers’: At City Ballet’s Gala, Affirming Ballet’s Honor 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Attracting an oversize audience of African-American women of a certain age, Perry may still be preaching to the choir, but the choral voice is loud and strong. G.I. Joe: Resurrection 2013-03-31T20:25:26Z

Do you see any particular relationship between this institution and the African-American museum? Bringing Africa to the World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

By invoking race, Mr. Martin, who is African-American, seems to suggest that private-school culture stands for training or retraining students of color to be meek young adults who don’t speak up or fight back. Motherlode Blog: Jonathan Martin and the Soft, White, Private School Question 2014-02-20T19:11:03Z

Armstrong began his career as an idol to many African-Americans. Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

In this work about stories and who gets to tell them, Mr. Hancock imagines an alternative “Huckleberry Finn” written by an African-American artist. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

I read through two courses on African-American literature, one on Jewish literature and the only one on Asian-American literature offered at the time. A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Because a bank was not going to buy a major work by an African-American artist in the 1950s or ’60s.” Adding a New Name to the Canon in Clay: Doyle Lane 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z

In fact, he was the only African-American person working for Marvel, period. Black Panther, Luke Cage and the First Black Artist to Draw Both 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s so important to him to present the fullness of the African-American experience — not just painting about the struggles of life or suffering. On Bernard Lumpkin’s Wall, a Visual Conversation About His Roots 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

No comparable “culture” term has been invoked in relation to the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the other African-Americans killed, recently, in encounters with the police. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

In the 80s and 90s, it often seemed that African-American family sitcoms were themselves operating with a sense of “blackness oblige”. Bad and boujee: the lifestyle that took over TV 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

The Panthers’ star African-American player, Smash Williams, was caught in a bind when his black teammates threatened to strike in protest at a racist coach. When good TV goes bad: how the bulb blew on Friday Night Lights 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

On this day she was one of six young people excited to be away from home, and the only African-American. Review: ‘The Fire This Time,’ Stoked by Baldwin’s Legacy 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

“Revelations,” Ailey’s signature work inspired by gospel and the African-American experience, isn’t humorous so much as electric. Paramount audience communes with Alvin Ailey company 2014-04-12T17:44:21Z

But those words and that situation was still identifiable to me as an African-American. From Nosebleed Seats to the Stage, Actors Discuss August Wilson 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

Viola Davis made history at the Emmys on Sunday night when she became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for best actress in a drama series. Viola Davis Just Made History With Her Emmy Win 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

“I am very much concerned that black kids see themselves as part of a global black experience,” said Mr. Gates, who is the director of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard. From Two Scholars, African-American Folk Tales for the Next Generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Mr. Kennedy, who is African-American, has long been among the most incisive American commentators on race. Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race 2011-08-11T22:00:15Z

African-American autobiographies often follow a structure that the literary scholar Robert Stepto calls a "narrative of ascent". The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z

His custom-made clothing defined so-called ghetto glamour as it married designer logos with patterns, colors and cuts reflecting the taste of young, street-savvy African-Americans. ‘Dapper Dan’ Gets Back to Harlem’s Roots 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

While African-American artists have historically been overlooked by major art museums, Mr. Puryear is one of the exceptions. Artist Martin Puryear Chosen for U.S. Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

“David’s sense of humor and comic timing were incredibly influential on me and a lot of African-American men,” said Joshua Henry, who plays Jake, a fisherman, in “Porgy.” David Alan Grier of ?The Gershwins? Porgy and Bess? 2012-02-28T00:35:51Z

Her high energy, historically sweeping works are a powerful blend of modern, ballet, hip-hop, West African and African-American vernacular forms. The School That Camille A. Brown Built 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

The cast combines African and African-American actors, and the national language of Wakanda is, in fact, Xhosa. Black Panther: does the Marvel epic solve Hollywood's Africa problem? 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

And in the brochure, Adusei-Poku cites the work that inspired her initial interest in the idea: a sculpture titled “Realization” and made around 1938 by the African-American artist Augusta Savage. For Black Artists, the Motivating Power of Melancholia 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

All the other actors vying for the same part were at least 10 years older and he was the only African-American. ‘The Fantasticks’ breaks a color barrier 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

I am thinking of the early African-American newspapers and the petitions demanding freedom. A Plan for Howard University?s Moorland-Spingarn Center 2012-03-14T22:25:09Z

Even so, there were whispers of efforts to keep African-American families from moving into certain white neighborhoods, whispers loud enough that even a youngster like me could hear. I don’t know much, but I know why black lives matter 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

“He was responsible for a major shift in the theater, for the inclusion of so many African-Americans on Broadway.” Philip Rose, ?Raisin? and ?Purlie? Producer, Dies at 89 2011-06-02T04:54:29Z

One result: A wide range of African-American leaders championed tougher penalties for drug crimes and gun possession in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s. ‘Locking Up Our Own,’ What Led to Mass Incarceration of Black Men 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

And that depended on your definitions of person and of color: the series, Fox’s The Cleveland Show, was animated, and its African-American lead was voiced by a white guy. Network TV, Now In Living Color 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Rejects: Will, the only African-American on the show, is sent packing after getting friend-zoned; and Robert, the sign spinning ad exec. The Bachelorette Watch: Rap Game Fairy Princess 2013-06-04T14:53:14Z

It is filled with darkly monochromatic works referring to gun violence devastating African-American communities. Nick Cave Uses His Capital to Help Aspiring Creators 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

As I got older, I became aware that as an African-American girl, I saw myself very differently from how others saw me. Why Do Kids’ Books About Black Hair Draw So Much Attention — and Controversy? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Benyamina has said that African-American culture, with its dogged insistence on visibility, helped her make sense of the world and her place in it. Houda Benyamina, the French Filmmaker Who Brought the Banlieues to Hollywood 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

The report also said African-American kids even got harsher treatment in cases when their grades and criminal histories were better than those of their white counterparts. News briefs from around Tennessee at 1:58 a.m. EDT 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Who owns African-American history: the generally white-dominated institutions that house many of its traces, or the descendants of the enslaved? Your Ancestors Were Slaves. Who Owns the Photos of Them? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

“But the ‘We are somebody’ I would like to be in the larger sense, not just the urban African-American but homo sapiens in general: We are somebody.” 2010-01-22T22:43:00Z

By his account he studied design at the Fashion Institute of Technology, then at the Sorbonne and became Bergdorf Goodman’s first African-American couturier. Art in Review 2010-03-04T22:24:00Z

There are at least 10 films coming out this year about African-Americans, including “Black Nativity,” a musical that you are in, Mr. Whitaker. Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker on ‘The Butler’ 2013-08-07T12:00:01Z

He kissed an African-American woman on the cheek. The R.N.C. on TV: The Ted Wedding 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

African-American females were still queuing for and Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family. Box Office: Bridesmaids Steals Thor's Thunder 2011-05-15T16:45:00Z

The 43-year-old artist, whose father is Nigerian and mother is African-American, is best known for his portrait of President Barack Obama. Kehinde Wiley on Protests’ Results: ‘I’m Not Impressed Yet’ 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

He wants to begin attracting African-American travelers, which I thought was a very promising idea. Getting to the Heart of Suriname 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

“We’re not just a bunch of old white guys sitting around writing this letter,” Mr. Williams, who is African-American, said. Artists and Writers Warn of an ‘Intolerant Climate.’ Reaction Is Swift. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. George, known for his work on hip-hop and about African-American culture, said he began with no agenda. Misty Copeland on Pushing Ballet’s Boundaries 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

She’s only the third woman to serve as president of the academy, and the first African-American to hold the post. Cheryl Boone Isaacs Re-elected as Motion Picture Academy President 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

She indicts the origins of the white feminist movement for its racist and classist treatment of African-American women and repudiates its goals of imitating the power structure of white patriarchy. In Praise of bell hooks 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Is it still the chronicle of African-American firsts? Desir?e Rogers, Post Crash 2010-10-01T21:16:00Z

Mr. Perry’s “Meet the Browns” followed in 2009; it’s currently television’s No. 1-rated scripted series among African-Americans ages 18 to 49, the group most coveted by advertisers. Television: ?Are We There Yet?,? New Sitcom From TBS 2010-05-29T02:36:00Z

He speaks with friends and neighbors, some African-American, some not. Review: ‘Accidental Courtesy’ Is Gentle Persuasion for Bigots 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

“Breaking Point,” a group show by Kamoinge, a 50-year-old collective of African-American photographers, depicts the crisis of American inequality and racism. Photoville: Bigger, and Covering the Waterfront 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

And it was African-American, and it pulled in a lot of crazy stuff. The Year in Pop: Viral Stardom and Martial Dance Music 2012-12-28T17:07:10Z

The song, made famous by Billie Holiday in 1939, protested against racism in America, specifically the lynching of African-Americans in the Deep South. Lennox 'challenged' by jazz album 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Being gay and African-American, he worried about being judged – or worse. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z

And despite some efforts to strive for bipartisanship, there’s a liberal undercurrent to Mr. Nash’s album, just as there’s a foundation in African-American protest literature in Mr. Marsalis’s. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Davis has made such introductions a regularity, bringing one African-American woman after another to a screen where they didn’t before exist. Viola Davis on ‘Widows,’ MeToo and expressing her femininity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

As did White Boy Rick – a true-crime thriller about a young, white fish out of water in a predominantly African-American underworld – hence the title. Why the privileged white male is bombing at the Box Office 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

That quotation from W. Somerset Maugham is the motto of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band. Dance Review: Carolina Chocolate Drops and Twyla Tharp’s ‘Cornbread Duet’ 2014-04-13T21:17:32Z

That Fox hit is one of the few network shows with an almost entirely African-American cast, yet race isn’t the driving force. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Ends a Strong First Season 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

“What we should be doing in the African-American community, and all communities, is build up respect for police officers,” Giuliani added. Rudy Giuliani Blasts Beyonce’s Super Bowl Performance as ‘Attack’ on Cops 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

"Bill Raspberry inspired a rising generation of African-American columnists and commentators who followed in his path, including me," said Clarence Page, a Pulitzer-winning columnist with the Chicago Tribune. Pulitzer-winning columnist William Raspberry dies 2012-07-17T17:24:13Z

It is not incidental that most of his subjects are African-Americans, like himself. Art Review: Henry Taylor?s Portraits and Other Paintings at MoMA PS1 2012-02-02T23:19:39Z

At the time, he was digging through the archive of the trailblazing 1980s African-American fashion designer Patrick Kelly, the subject of his current show at the Studio Museum of Harlem, through Feb. 23. How an Artist Learned About Freedom From ‘The Negro Motorist Green Book’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The empathetic, elegiac, low-budget film is a coming-of-age story about Chiron, a poor, gay, African-American boy from Miami, told in three segments. Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

There were some Asians and South Asians and one person who self-identified as biracial, but there were no African-Americans or Hispanics, a reflection of the university population that volunteered to participate. Studied: When Color Is Reflected in a Janitor?s Outfit - Studied 2011-10-14T23:24:54Z

A recent book by Toni Tipton-Martin, “The Jemima Code,” compiles and examines scores of African-American cookbooks from across the decades, shedding light on how the contributions of black cooks were often dismissed and put down. A Belle Époque for African-American Cooking 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Trump claims Kanye West as a friend and a “different kind of a guy” whose big following in the African-American community helped boost his approval ratings. Trump lunches with Kanye West, will talk justice reform 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

In closing, Dr. Bill walks up the steps of the Buell Green Hospital, the main African-American hospital, and is greeted warmly by the board. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Doing Your Own Dirty Work 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Wilcox is African-American and the Duchess of Sussex is of mixed heritage. In the US, interest in Britain’s next royal birth is mixed 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Surely, the African-American detectives must have thoughts on this subject. Review: Deep in a Homicide Unit, Details, but No Big Picture 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Earlier in production, Chronicle’s Michael B Jordan was forced to defend his own casting as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, a white man in the comics reimagined as an African-American on screen. Fantastic Four director Josh Trank blames studio for poor reviews 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

He said, “We need to get more African-American girls that look like Andrea. Because half the time you don’t even know.” Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

“Just as Herzl looked to ‘Tannhäuser’ to fortify his Zionist vision, Du Bois took Wagnerian myth as a model for a heroic new African-American spirit.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

In the 1880s, an African-American cornet player named Viola Allen led the “Colored Female Brass Band” in East Saginaw, Michigan. Essence Music Fest: The World’s Only All-Female Brass Band Takes the Stage 2012-07-09T15:00:32Z

“Her being African-American and being at the top of her game and having that cultural perspective on top of the smarts that it takes was very important to me,” Ms. Nyong’o said. She’s the Hollywood Power Behind Those Seeking a Voice 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

For decades, African-American folklore failed to capture mainstream attention and remained in a perpetually precarious position, always on the verge of being lost. From Two Scholars, African-American Folk Tales for the Next Generation 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

The young African-Americans being conscripted to fight for Uncle Sam in Vietnam went to war humming James Brown, not "So What". The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

“Of course two of the most respected black women in African-American literature say hey, I want to work with you on my book. It was instant credibility,” she said. Kima Jones, the Founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts, Is Taking the Publishing Industry by Storm 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

The concept of home looms large for Ryan and her family — as it does now for all Americans, not just those who are African-American and lower middle class like Ryan’s family. ‘This Is How It Is Now’: Ramona Quimby, Meet Ryan Hart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

In this upscale, lily-white beach town, there is not an African-American or Asian face in sight. Movie Review: ‘Stuck in Love’ Stars Greg Kinnear as a Divorced Novelist 2013-07-04T20:34:58Z

Unfortunately, he doesn’t illuminate how the myth relates to the documented bodysnatching from Black cemeteries by doctors, an elision which consigns warranted African-American fears to the realm of horror stories and folklore. When a Black Man’s Heart Was Transplanted Without Consent 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

In 1936, Walter White, the secretary of the NAACP, wrote to him expressing concern, and suggesting he hire someone, preferably an African-American, to check “possible errors” of fact and interpretation. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

Ironically, the equation of gay rights with race issues is recurring complaint from some in the African-American community. Jason Collins: Out of the NBA? 2013-04-30T16:32:00Z

Free events in the neighborhood will include a bazaar on Ashland Place featuring African, Caribbean and African-American food, arts and crafts. DanceAfrica at BAM Explores a Diaspora’s Traditions 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

African-American soldiers who had fought for their country in the First World War returned home with high hopes for the recognition of their military service and their humanity. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

An African-American born into slavery, Parsons grew up to fashion a story about herself, claiming to be the daughter of Mexican and Native American parents. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Goddess of Anarchy’ 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

Expectations about how an African-American composer should sound felt confining at the beginning of Dr. Holland’s career. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

He was equally outspoken on the delicate subject of race and jazz, acknowledging the vital role played by African-American musicians but resisting the notion that jazz was an exclusively black art form. Gene Lees, Jazz Critic and Historian, Dies at 82 2010-04-27T03:33:00Z

The advisory evokes an era when African-Americans relied on sources like The Negro Motorist Green Book to guide their travel choices. N.A.A.C.P. to Missouri: You’re No Safe Space (Still) 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

“We really got into this deep conversation about not just black women, but the invisibility of African-American women,” Ms. Keith said. One Artist’s Melancholy Look at Missing African-American Women 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Behind the ornate headstones of Sanford Cemetery is an overgrown African-American cemetery, where Hurston’s mother, Lucy, is thought to be buried, though her grave has yet to be discovered. Cultured Traveler: Zora Neale Hurston?s Florida 2010-03-31T18:01:00Z

Today about one in 10 converts to Mormonism are black, but surveys report that only about 1 to 3 percent of Mormons in the United States are African-American. Mormons confront a history of Church racism 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

“Race has contaminated American solidarity, making it impossible for poor whites, threatened by job loss, globalization and the death of carbon-intensive industries, to make common cause with African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and immigrants.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Fewer than 300 pilots in Louisiana are qualified to pilot on the river, and Austin is one of only six who are African-American. “Water is where I find my peace”: Meet the master river pilot who conquers the Mississippi every day 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z

The first episode begins with the 1921 riot in Tulsa, Okla., in which white mobs rampaged in the prosperous “Black Wall Street,” massacring African-Americans in the street and strafing them from above with airplanes. Review: ‘Watchmen’ Is an Audacious Rorschach Test 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

But black viewers have gone missing when the core African-American presence was diminished, as it is this year. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Telfar Clemens, an African-American designer with a growing fan base and industry attention, simply posted a burning police van with no caption. The Virgil Abloh Backlash 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t until high school, and later by studying African-American studies at university, that she was able to explore her identity. How Insecure made TV gold with ‘a show about regular black people being basic’ 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z

Motown great Wonder says: "It is exciting to be at this college, the first northern college to accept African-Americans." Wonder, Cosby receive honorary degrees at Oberlin 2010-05-01T18:16:00Z

“I’m interested in producing a different possibility of representation” for African-Americans, the artist said, “one that’s divergent from a pervading global advertising style.” Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The collection of Dr. Angelou shows the natural affinity this great American poet, writer, thinker, and educator had with many visual artists,” says Nigel Freeman, director of African-American Art at Swann Auction Galleries. Shop the Art Collection of Maya Angelou 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

As a consequence, those back home — disproportionately African-American workers — who found themselves living in economic exile, scrabbling to get by,  began showing up in similarly disproportionate numbers in the country’s rapidly expanding prison archipelago. Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z

Lest we forget: She was a 28-year-old African-American woman found hanged in her cell in Texas after being arrested during a traffic stop. A Poetry Collection That Squints Hard at the Culture, in Pain and in Joy 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Upon arriving, she proposed that the jazz program partner with the school’s Center for African-American Poetry to open a small venue in the community engagement center that Pitt was building in a historically Black neighborhood. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

You want to see the African-American car culture, the Latino car culture. Jay Leno calls out lack of diversity in late night: “It’s all white guys. What’s changed?” 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Jeffrey Wright — at 53, younger, leaner and less towering, nowhere near haggard, and African-American — was not on those lists. Jeffrey Wright on ‘The Goldfinch,’ ‘Westworld’ and James Bond 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

“The rise of African-American artists is part of a broader tendency to re-evaluate neglected artists that’s been going on for a few years,” said Candace Worth, an art adviser based in New York. As a Black Artist Soars at Auction, Rethinking ‘Blue Chip’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

He said that he was “very happy and very excited to be here” and that the show was an homage to Jackie Robinson, “the first African-American man who was accepted into American baseball.” On the Runway Blog: At Umit Benan, an Homage to Jackie Robinson 2014-01-19T17:23:19Z

I would argue, given the way the season is going and given Friday’s episode in particular, that the show is more hopeful about African-Americans in Dillon than it is about whites. 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: The Problem that Transcends Race 2010-07-03T01:00:00Z

On the West Coast, the First AME Church of Los Angeles, the city's oldest African-American congregation, held a special moment of silence in Houston's memory. Family, fans mourn Whitney Houston with tears, prayers 2012-02-13T01:53:33Z

Later, in an attempt to clarify his remarks, he said, “My entire life, being an African-American, Christianity was forced down my throat.” Kanye West’s Sunday Service Is Full of Longing and Self-Promotion 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

They depict a condition known to African-Americans ever since they began arriving on these shores, when a mother’s primary fear was of her children being sold away from her. Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

At the University of Memphis, Abdul-Qaadir, who is Muslim and African-American, set another benchmark by becoming the first player to compete in N.C.A.A. basketball while wearing a hijab. Nike Takes the Plunge Into Modest Swimwear 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

The historian Wilson J. Moses, reviewing the book in The Historian, called Professor Abrahams “probably the most celebrated living preservationist of African-American secular oral traditions.” Roger D. Abrahams, Folklorist Who Studied African-American Language, Dies at 84 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

So how do you think African-Americans would react differently than whites to living in a haunted house? | Q&A: Marlon Wayans on His Horror Spoof, ‘A Haunted House’ 2013-01-09T23:02:47Z

In spare, direct prose, she takes readers into the world of African-American sharecroppers in the Jim Crow South. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

A critique of U.S. exploitation of African-Americans in war and in general, “Da 5 Bloods” is also an adventure film and a caper movie, filled with callbacks to Lee’s other works. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

He’s a black man in a predominantly black community, but it’s an unusual one—he’s descended from mixed-race Creoles, whose skin color tends to be lighter than that of other African-Americans. “Cane River,” Reviewed: Horace B. Jenkins’s Lost Film About Romance Amid the Burdens of Black American History 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

But I also wanted to expand the kinds of stories told about African-American kids. Why Do Kids’ Books About Black Hair Draw So Much Attention — and Controversy? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Naomi Wallace’s high-toned but low-energy drama depicts two characters, the African-American Jamie and the white Dee, as teenagers in prison and later as grown women several years later trying to forge new lives. Theater Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Markle, 36, is a divorcee whose mother is African-American and father is white. Harry and Meghan's wedding to blend royal tradition with Hollywood... 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Because the Latinos, anxious about their residency status, are much less camera-friendly than their African-American counterparts, Bocanegra isn't seen mediating on screen. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z

“Chocolate City” speaks to forced migrations and the displacement of African-Americans from their native lands. Collecting to Explore ‘Origin, Culture, Form, Function and Race’ 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas, an African-American artist whose work often delves into advertising and race, added: “There are a lot of false dichotomies out there. This piece is about trying to get to common denominators.” Political Art in a Fractious Election Year 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

At the same time, projected text informed the audience about the disproportionate incarceration rates of African-American youth. Review: ‘LUV: American-Style,’ a Rennie Harris Dance Work 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

Even today African-American schoolchildren will be told: 'Your people sold you. Ang?lique Kidjo asks: 'Who are they to tell me what's African?' 2010-04-29T22:15:00Z

There were probably fewer than a dozen African-American students in my high school, which had an enrollment of well over a thousand. “Would we even be here if Julian Acox was white?” Race, self-defense and making of a murder charge 2016-01-05T05:00:00Z

Wilson thought that a vivid and original culture would be lost by African-Americans blending into the white mainstream. What August Wilson Means Now 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

After that blistering takedown of African-American theatrical clichés, what writer would dare attempt a sincere “Mama on the couch” play or anything smacking of collards, church or “Mr. Boss Man”? Review: In ‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket,’ Who Can Afford Civil Rights? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

The program is a great primer on Brown’s style, with its infectious blend of African, Caribbean and African-American social dance. Transcendent Spirits: Lift 40 Voices and Dance 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

After all, the first African-American romance imprint came on the scene less than 20 years ago. Love Knows No Color: Interracial Romance Novels Find Growing Audience and Acceptance 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The imagery would show Eisenhower as president signing the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to advance equal rights for African-Americans. Key arts panel approves Eisenhower Memorial design 2013-07-18T17:54:42Z

He still refers to African-Americans as “Negroes” and talks about how President Obama “was getting his little black booty spanked by Romney about fiscal stewardship.” Richard Ford’s Hero Returns in ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’ 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

But this 2004 show about an ambitious African-American publicist forced to return to — horrors! 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Paramount is offering free screenings of Selma for students in 24 American cities on Monday, thanks to contributions by prominent African-American business leaders. Oprah Winfrey And Other 'Selma' Stars Will March in Alabama on MLK Day 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Marita Golden, an African-American writer who is a founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, which supports black writers around the world, acknowledged that those sentiments exist but disagreed with them. New Wave of African Writers With an Internationalist Bent 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

Copeland believes that a museum devoted to African-Americans’ vast impact on music is critical. Museum Exploring Music’s Black Innovators Arrives in Nashville 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Recently rediscovered as an inspiration for Beyoncé’s Lemonade, this is a visually sumptuous, narratively distinct family saga about African-American womanhood on a South Carolina island. Other stories: why now is the time for a new movie canon – chosen by women 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

The filigree of the facade panels was inspired by African-American grillwork in South Carolina and Louisiana, which had West African roots. Review: The Smithsonian African American Museum Is Here at Last. And It Uplifts and Upsets. 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“The fact that we will have an African-American curating a music whose roots are in the African-American community — to me, it’s not just symbolic. It’s necessary.” Christian McBride, Newport Jazz Festival Star, Becomes a Backstage Player 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

And my son told me about a recent pre-K lesson on Ruby Bridges, the first African-American student who, at 6, integrated an elementary school in the South. Black History Month Is a Good Excuse for Delving Into Our Art 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

For Greenfield’s African-American supporters, it was a point of huge contention throughout her career. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

The Venn diagram really came together in 1984, when nude photographs of the pageant's first African-American winner, Vanessa Williams, emerged and were published in Penthouse without her consent. Miss America’s #MeToo reboot: Can a former beauty pageant really evolve? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

They have worked just as hard to define that cult, which is at once Christian and pantheistic, African-American in origin but global in reach. Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z

After the sculpture leaves Times Square in December, it will be permanently installed in Richmond on Arthur Ashe Boulevard, a major thoroughfare, recently renamed after the Richmond-born African-American tennis icon, that crosses Monument Avenue. Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

Jarrett was born in Iran to parents of European and African-American descent. TV's Roseanne says tweet 'cost me everything' but wasn't racist 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

America’s record is like this: owners against the slaves, North against South, liberals against the conservatives, the cops against the African-Americans, Bloods vs. America the divided: We can’t “come together” now — we’ve never been united 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

But as in all Wilson’s works the central story line merely occupies the foreground of an expansive portrait of African-American lives drawn in such rich detail that art seems to fuse with anthropology. Theater Review: August Wilson’s ‘Piano Lesson’ at Signature Theater 2012-11-19T03:00:00Z

Q. The book is composed as a letter to your teenage son, and as a blunt warning to him about the physical risks of being an African-American man in this country. Ta-Nehisi Coates: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Anybody’s Expert’ 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

Rock will play the head of an African-American family who surrenders his oldest boy to his enemy - an Italian - to keep an uneasy peace, Landgraf said. Chris Rock to star in new season of FX crime drama 'Fargo' 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Marian Anderson was one of the reigning symbols of African-American achievement: in Norman’s childhood, memories were still fresh of the contralto’s legendary performance at the Lincoln Memorial, in 1939, before a vast crowd. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z