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Arts & Entertainment
'American Son' Dramatizes Every Black Mother's Fear
The art of the movie exists within the ferocity of its one note—a note that if you’ve ever had to sing, feels like an eternity of ripping out your vocal chords as an entire nation stands by and refuses to listen.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Why 'Friends' Is The Wrong Show To Celebrate In The Trump Era
As an ensemble cast of semi-ambitious young white people trying to make it in New York City, Rachel and Ross and Phoebe and Joey and Monica and Chandler were ultimately able to live in delusion and thrive in ways that black and brown people never could or can.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
The 1619 Project Is The Reckoning America Needs
The pushback from Gingrich and his ilk only further illustrates the impact and necessity of the 1619 Project, which is at once spectacular and damning—an illumination that bleeds and breathes, rooted in black language, black life, and black history.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
The Racist Truth Of 'Big Little Lies'
The series, which ended its second season last Sunday, is a plot-addled melange of marriage, single motherhood, domestic violence, sexual assault, and murder... but race, not so much.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Remembering Spike Lee's 'Do The Right Thing' And The Question I Wish I Could Take Back
'Do the Right Thing' — and an interaction with its filmmaker — forever changed me.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Dark Times: What The Fight For Weeksville And Reparations Says About Blackness In America
At every turn we see how the preservation of blackness remains an uphill battle.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Ava DuVernay's 'When They See Us' Is The Story Of America
The new Netflix mini-series leads you straight into the eye of a visceral terror. It makes your skin hurt and your gut grieve.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
We Out Here: Recognizing The Black Icons Among Us
What if we gave ourselves permission as black creatives in predominantly white spaces to be iconic?
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
What The Reaction To The Royal Baby Says About Racial Identity And Racism
Since the birth of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's son on Monday, at least two media outlets have posted blatantly racist commentary about him.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Lessons In Blackness From Beyoncé's 'Homecoming'
Never have I seen a more perfect and generous stretch of black legacy than in 'Homecoming.' And I wish it had been available for my white parents to sit me down in front of when I was a child.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Love In The Time Of White Supremacy
Two stirring new plays examine white supremacy in America.
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Rebecca Carroll
Arts & Entertainment
Believing The Boys Of Neverland
We need to turn the focus from Jackson to the people he hurt, the survivors and their health and well-being.
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Rebecca Carroll
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