Racism
Nobody reading about Rebecca “Beka” Ntsanwisi, aka “Mama Beka,” can feel anything but good. This extraordinary South African woman has built a network of soccer teams made up of grandmothers throughout her country.
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In these short films James Baldwin does not come off as a relaxed person, someone at ease with himself or quite comfortable in the world. You can feel the acute pain as he speaks.
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At a time when the nation is taking stock of the failures of our history of urban policing and looking for some new approaches, the lessons of Hold Your Fire are needed more urgently than ever.
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We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
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Making Monsters “is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult.”
Read MoreChi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental.
Read More“Theater producers do not want to make their audience members uncomfortable and talking about race makes folks uncomfortable.”
Read MoreIn appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment.
Read MoreAccording to Shelby Steele, white liberals “dissociate” themselves from the past sins of white America by subscribing to the “poetic truth” that the United States is “characterologically evil.”
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Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Zebra in the Room
Much more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward.
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