Beyoncé and the End of Respectability Politics

Describing the importance of Beyoncé’s performance at the Coachella festival on Saturday, April 24, 2018, Myles E. Johnson writes: “In putting on a show that celebrated the diversity of black people, she conveyed that no matter how much fame or money she...

Racism is profitable — also in Baltimore

Black culture is not the problem, says N D B Connolly in an oped in the New York Times. … we take our eye off the circumstances that created the event. We forget, for instance, about how officials, in their fear of black youth, issued what witnesses said was a...