Harlem Mourns James Brown

The art was hot and the rhetoric hotter at the viennacontemporary art fair. 

A newly restored version of the 1975–79 documentary classic puts the resolute filmmaker’s decades of activist films in focus.

Small businesses, carnivals, and hardscrabble optimism live in the shadow of failed history.

They “don’t mean to brag, don’t mean to boast” — but 50 years later, pretenders to the hip-hop throne are, in a roundabout way, taking the rap for perpetuating one of the longest feuds in Black cultural history.

Green buildings and plans for carbon-zero living vs. global collapse.

A gathering in Washington sought to inform, train, and energize a new generation of advocates dedicated to improving the lives of those among us who are poor and ignored.