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Bridgerton’s third season is gauzier than ever. Should we still be holding it accountable?

The grief of today’s wars, North Carolina poet Joanne Durham reminds us, falls heaviest on the children of the victims.

One of the recurring themes of the collection: the ways in which the scars caused by slavery and other forms of racial violence in America linger, influencing and echoing future events within a chronology of traumas.

Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.

The Plant Genetic Resources Bank preserved the seeds of 160,000 varieties of crops and plant seeds from around the world; in the war, many were reduced to ash.

The improbable story of Huey P. Newton’s escape to Cuba—with the help of a pair of movie producers—is stretched thin in this Apple TV+ miniseries

New Jersey teacher and poet, Carol Smith explains the hazards of racist content, subtle, accidental, sometimes deliberate.

This new book is a chronicle of the Democratic Party’s left flank

Set against the corrupt, soulless “greed is good” (or was it greed is god?) era of Reaganomics, the punk characters of Repo Man consist of cynical suburban youth...

In a refugee camp, Hamada Shaqoura turns aid packages into pizza wraps, curry, and “Gazan style” tacos, gaining internet-wide attention. On Instagram, he offers the world a glimpse into the scarcity and ingenuity that define Palestinian survival.