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Black US culture

August 2024

  • A woman stands at a podium and smiles with her name "Kamala" written on the screen behind her

    Harris campaign has enlivened voters, say Black organizers: ‘The energy is palpable’

    Grassroots groups say mobilizing voters is easier after Biden left the race and Harris’s candidacy now gains steam

July 2024

  • Black and South Asian woman with shoulder-length brown hair smiles and speaks at lectern in front of white and blue logo behind her.

    Kamala Harris stresses abortion rights and Black political power in sorority speech

    At event with 6,000 Black women in Indianapolis, vice-president urges voter mobilization
  • A woman in a smart pantsuit greets other sharply dressed women.

    Harris’s likely nomination invigorates US Black women and spurs donations

    A conference call had tens of thousands of participants and raised $1.5m for the presumptive Democratic nominee
  • three side by side photos. at left: two people looking at a photograph of a woman next to flowers. center: man standing in front of tree. Right: exterior of storefront that says "SOIL"

    ‘The beginning of Black liberation’: photographs tell the real story of the Mississippi Delta

    The work of Justin Hardiman documents the lives of Black southern farmers, long sidelined in mainstream narratives

June 2024

  • A swimmer learns to float during a free swimming lesson organized by Black People Will Swim at York College in Jamaica, Queens, New York, on Thursday, June 20th, 2024.

    The Guardian picture essay
    A New York program is helping Black people of all ages enjoy swimming: ‘It’s very empowering’

    Paulana Lamonier started Black People Will Swim in 2019 and has since provided free and low-cost lessons to over 2,500 Black and brown people
  • A black-and-white photo of a young, Black baseball catcher, crouching and looking at the camera as he wears a backwards baseball cap, a protective vest, and a catcher's mitt on his left hand, resting his forearms on his thighs.

    MLB has integrated Negro Leagues stats. Is it too little, too late?

    Josh Gibson, nicknamed the Black Babe Ruth, is belatedly recognized as the all-time hit king and a tribute game will be held in Alabama today – but only 5.7% of players are now Black Americans
  • three people sit in front with people standing behind them clapping

    Oklahoma supreme court dismisses lawsuit of Tulsa massacre survivors

    Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, the last two survivors of 1921 events, sought to make city pay restitution

May 2024

  • A clamour of touches, moods and modes … Grace by Alvaro Barrington, standing front.

    Alvaro Barrington: Grace review – church pews, chains and a carnival queen

    From a sticky Caribbean thunderstorm to the cocaine-fuelled violence of the New York street corner, the artist takes us through the highs and lows of his journey to the present moment
  • A young Black man wearing a straw-colored cowboy hat lit by sunlight coming through rafters out of the frame has his arm over the neck of a brown, saddled horse.

    ‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old

    Historians estimate a quarter of settlers of the US west were Black, moving cattle on horseback, settling towns and keeping the peace
  • woman on a white horse holding an american flag and wearing a red, white and blue jumpsuit and a white cowboy hat

    Beyoncé’s display of the American flag raises questions for Black people

    Derecka Purnell
    The pop star has been draped in the star-spangled banner for her album. This pride in the flag is misplaced

April 2024

  • man speaks at podium amid officers outdoors, with the water in the background

    Racist dog whistle: the right wing has weaponized ‘DEI’

  • Black man with very long dreads, wearing black T-shirt, cream blazer, and gray khakis poses in front of long chalkboard between two chairs.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

  • Older Black woman with cropped white hair, in white dress with lace arms sitting on rolling chair with hands in lap, in front of blue background, looks at camera.

    ‘Our now-weary bodies have held on’: 109-year-old Tulsa massacre survivors get day in court

  • a woman performs magic

    ‘A part of who we are’: how a Black queer magician is carrying on a long tradition

March 2024

  • a woman pours wine into wine glasses

    Her first visit to wine country was ‘anything but pleasant’. So this Black ex-techie created a community

  • black and white photo of a man holding an oscar flanked by a man and a woman

    Louis Gossett Jr: king of Hollywood’s strong, silent types, from Roots to The Color Purple

  • Beyoncé wears a cowboy hat

    ‘She’s done it again’: fans celebrate release of Beyoncé’s album Cowboy Carter

  • Louis Gossett Jr

    Louis Gossett Jr, first Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies aged 87

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

  • Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade

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