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Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners”

Jelani Cobb The New Yorker
The film represents a departure for the “Black Panther” director, and a creative risk; it grapples with ideas about music, race, family, religion—and vampires.

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Hungry Work

Lola Olufemi Vittles
It was women who ran the hostel services and food kitchens in the League of Coloured Peoples in the 1930–50s; and women who made sure that the minutes of meetings and conferences were kept. They are why we have this important history.

A ‘Wary Faith’ in the Courts

Eric Foner The New York Review of Books
A groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has been imagined.

The Black Box of Race

Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Atlantic
In a circumscribed universe, Black Americans have ceaselessly reinvented themselves.
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