She created a program to honor Black artistic success in the 1960s. But she spent decades trying to get its organizers to recognize her role.
Category: Black People
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Modern Love Essayists Write Letters to Their Younger Selves
We asked essayists to write a letter to the person they were when they published their Modern Love essay. Here’s what they shared.
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The Met’s Next Costume Fashion Blockbuster Take On the Politics of Race
With support from LeBron James, ASAP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and more.
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Studio Museum in Harlem to Open New Building in Fall 2025
The 82,000-square-foot structure on 125th Street will open with a show featuring the artist Tom Lloyd.
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Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 90
He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike by Black sanitation workers in Memphis.
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Museum at FIT Tells the Story of the African Diaspora Through Its Fashions
By examining the work of designers of African descent, a new exhibition in Manhattan finds common threads and, more interestingly, divergences.
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She Found a Home in Music. Now She’s the Composer for the King.
Errollyn Wallen, a Belize-born artist who has been named master of music by King Charles, discusses music as an escape, confronting racism and living by the sea.
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In New Orleans, a ‘Black Beach’ Is Being Rescued From the Ruins
During segregation, Lincoln Beach was the only place on Lake Pontchartrain where Black people were allowed to swim. Now, after years of neglect and the intervention of local volunteers, it’s on the edge of revival.
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Why You May Never See the Documentary on Prince by Ezra Edelman
A revealing new documentary could redefine our understanding of the pop icon. But you will probably never get to see it.
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Isaiah Collier Funnels a ‘Very Radical Time’ Into a Vivid New Album
The saxophonist and composer made “The World Is on Fire” with recent racial violence — and protests decrying it, and demanding change — in the foreground.