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The rapper has mastered the delicate balance between commercial success and politically charged music. How far will he push the envelope on one of the world’s biggest stages?
Popular memes debating Harris’ racial authenticity say less about the US’s first Black and Indian vice president and more about Americans’ complex cultural conversations.
The Missing Thread is a careful and honest curation of black identity and displacement.
The Blackening excels at subverting the very stereotypes it plays upon for its humour.
A sociology professor uses the popular ‘Boondocks’ cartoon to explore contemporary issues of race in American society.
Paul Laurence Dunbar became the first Black writer to earn international acclaim through his poetry, essays and musical lyrics.
Theatre censorship laws stifled Black playwrights for more than 200 years – here’s what we found in the archive.
Black Twitter has played a significant role in shaping the platform. In the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, questions are being asked over the community’s future.
Black Twitter is often the preferred forum for candid and authentic Black-centered discussions on police brutality. Without it, holding police accountable may become even more difficult.
Black artists have been fundamental to the history of alternative music – the introduction of the Mobos’ alternative category mustn’t forget that.
Even though Afrofuturist works are set in fictional worlds, they provide a blueprint for social, political and economic systems free from exploitation and oppression.
If bars are forced to restrict people’s movement in our post-coronavirus pandemic world, they will lose some of their most important social functions.
Fifty years after the original film, three generations of Shaft are loose on the streets of New York.
Peele’s films reflect the way many African-American directors have used the horror genre to reflect the black experience.
Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul’, was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Teeming with references to African culture and experience, the couple’s latest work places ‘blackness'at the heart of the Western canon.
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Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Film, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Music, Kingston University
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Professor of English, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
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Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Industries, University of East London
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland
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Professor of Urban Media Studies, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University
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Professor of Education, University of Maryland
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PhD candidate in education, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Education, Butler University
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Lecturer, American literature and African American Cultural Studies, University of Sheffield
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Professor of American History, University of Leeds; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
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Associate Professor of Music, University of Dayton