African American
Centering Black life: Groundbreaking filmmaker John Singleton dies at age 51
April 30, 2019Singleton’s films centering the Black experience will live on, inspiring future Black storytellers and showing that these stories can be told, despite the odds.
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“Dayveon”: Growing up poor and Black in rural Arkansas
September 15, 2017Dayveon, the central character in Amman Abbasi’s new film, is a study in contrasts. He lives amidst great beauty and great danger.
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Langston Hughes: Working-class voice for equality, peace and socialism
May 25, 2017Langston Hughes is justifiably known as the Poet Laureate of the African-American people. He died May 22, 1967 in New York City.
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Why Chicago’s Black Ensemble Theater matters: Creativity in the age of Trump
December 31, 2016Celebrating 40 years of Chicago's Black Ensemble Theater, the only theater in the U.S. whose mission is to eradicate racism.
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Remembering Claudia Jones, Communist leader who spoke for black women
December 24, 2016Jones’ analysis of black women’s oppression and her vision of black women as political activists remain meaningful even a half-century after her death.
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