Though I knew she had been ill for some time, it was still a shock to hear that Aretha Franklin  (1942-2018) had moved to hospice care...

One of the joys of the internet, and of Twitter --horrible social media platform though it sometimes can be--is the serendipity of coming a...

Terence Nash (Jemal Countess/ Getty Images), from Colorlines Watching the first episode of filmmaker and musician  Terence Nance '...

Codeswitching , and more specifically the act of African Americans  using a   "white voice," including accent, intonation and...

James Baldwin (Associated Press) "Until my father died I thought I could do something else. I had wanted to be a musician, thought...

A lovely moment yesterday: Major League Baseball Atlanta Braves  baseball player Ozzie Albies , from Curaçao , was captured on film tende...

Following up on my post of 2018 photos from mid-June, here are few more recent photos from the last few months. Enjoy! 14th Street ...

In lieu of a review of Adrian M. S. Piper 's (1948-) remarkable show at MoMA this summer, which I made sure not to miss, I am posting ...