Driving west toward L.A. on U.S. 66 out of Winslow, Arizona, on Christmas morning 1967, I was accompanied by my friend Pierre Joris, whom I had met just a few months earlier when he arrived ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

Over the years, instead of learning how to take care of my hair, I opted to damage it. My flat iron was booked and busy ...

The poet and activist talks about the precarity that trans, queer, and Afrodescendent people in Cuba face today, and the life ...

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The diss track reached its peak of cultural prominence at the Super Bowl, when Kendrick Lamar performed Not Like Us, his ...

Students at Kelly Elementary School learned Wednesday that poetry can be about anything. Sixteen Bucknell University students kicked off a series of poetry workshops on Monday for Lewisburg Area ...

American beauticians who ran businesses that supported civil rights movements during South Florida's racial segregation.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair.

Change Tomorrow (CTCT) is a Black-women-led food justice movement organization known for its consistent community offerings ...

As we honor the late R&B singer, we don't just remember Angie Stone's music but also her legacy of natural hair, pride, and ...

Forget reggaeton or rap: for children in rural Cuba the epitome of cool is writing and singing a ten-line poem -- a art form ...

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