Black Glory

Even though Colin Kaepernick didn’t play football this season, his peaceful protest was still very much a part of the NFL’s season of epic resistance.
Camille Friend discusses the challenges of developing a new African-based aesthetic.
Now is the time for the world to applaud us, to protect us, to respect us, to center us.
The first black woman to make a U.S. Olympic speedskating team was eliminated in a 1,500-meter short-track heat.
"It’s a fantasy film that is not about some white boys fighting evil, but about a black girl overcoming it," Taylor Richardson wrote.
“I didn’t listen. I wasn’t kind. I had an attitude,” the comedian says in his new Netflix special.
In a world flooded with images, artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald show that painting can still shape American history.
Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American Congresswoman and the first black person to run for a presidential nomination in a major party.
Pacifist Bayard Rustin was behind the scenes of some of the biggest moments of the civil rights movement.