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Darryl Pinckney’s latest book is Busted in New York and Other Essays. A new edition of Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy was published in 2020. (February 2022)
A Gift for the Long Game
Obama’s memoir of his first term is a story of aiming high and settling for what he could get.
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
March 25, 2021 issue
Escaping Blackness
Thomas Chatterton Williams’s ‘Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race’
Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
by Thomas Chatterton Williams
March 26, 2020 issue
Ma’am’s Life and Loves
King George VI said that while Princess Elizabeth was his pride, Princess Margaret was his joy.
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
by Craig Brown
August 16, 2018 issue
The Afro-Pessimist Temptation
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy’
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
June 7, 2018 issue
Black Pictures
The pioneers of African-American cinema
Pioneers of African-American Cinema
directed by Richard Norman, Richard Maurice, Spencer Williams, and Oscar Micheaux; curated and including essays by Charles Musser and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart
April 19, 2018 issue
Black Lives Matter
Kara Walker turns against whiteness what white people invented. Those funny faces aren’t so funny anymore.
Kara Walker: Sikkema Jenkins and Co. is Compelled to present The most Astounding and Important Painting show of the fall Art Show viewing season!
an exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins and Co., New York City, September 7–October 14, 2017
November 9, 2017 issue
Master Class
I’m afraid I don’t find that terribly interesting as an approach, she’d say.
October 12, 2017 issue
The Trickster’s Art
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song for a Cipher
an exhibition at the New Museum, New York City, May 3–September 3, 2017
Regarding the Figure
an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, April 20–August 6, 2017
Kehinde Wiley: Trickster
an exhibition at the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, May 6–June 17, 2017
August 17, 2017 issue
The Harlem He Knew
Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem
by Claude McKay, edited and with an introduction by Jean-Christophe Cloutier and Brent Hayes Edwards
June 22, 2017 issue
Catching Up to James Baldwin
‘The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race,’ edited by Jesmyn Ward
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
edited by Jesmyn Ward
May 25, 2017 issue
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