Fifteen years after her blockbuster novel “The Help” sparked conversation and criticism for its portrayal of the lives of Black maids in the South, Kathryn Stockett...
A forthcoming romance novel by the writer Sophie Lark was pulled by her publisher after drawing criticism from readers over dialogue that some found racist or...
These four restaurants were synonymous with their owners, all serving their takes on soul or Southern food. Before they arrived, a craving for soul food meant...
Saar, whom White would eventually recruit to teach at Otis, grew up on the edge of Altadena in the 1930s and ’40s. Her neighborhood’s paperboy, she...
Sam’s transformation into the Captain could have easily been the M.C.U.’s version of “The Blind Side,” a tale of a Black man’s triumph under the tutelage...
Lawyers for Sean Combs filed a motion on Tuesday night seeking the dismissal of one of the sex trafficking charges he is facing, arguing that the...
The point seems to be to surprise readers with criticisms of Israel from unexpected sources as a way of opening them up to alternate ways of...
Imani Perry often finds herself talking about things people get wrong about the South. For one thing, she says, there isn’t a single South, but many...
DARK LABORATORY: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis, by Tao Leigh Goffe The slow-motion disaster that is climate change started with...
An interracial couple from Arizona has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines alleging they were detained by law enforcement after the husband was falsely suspected of...
