City & State New York1h
Why do Black voters currently seem to prefer Andrew Cuomo over Eric Adams?
You vote for the choice that's going to do the least amount of harm to you, knowing how white voters are going to behave.” ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
The New Yorker12h
The Eternal Mysteries of Red
It’s often deemed the first color, the strongest color, the color that stands for color itself. So why does it keep slipping ...
100 Years of How Black Painters See Themselves
Koyo Kouoh, who will curate the 2026 Venice Biennale, has assembled a huge survey at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in ...
The New Yorker12h
“Black Dictionary”
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to ...
Rare portraits reveal the humanity of the slaves who revolted on the Amistad
On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” – while they were being shipped to a ...
The Forward on MSN5h
The double life of Abraham, from freethinker to pure believer
Anthony Julius' biography of Abraham argues for the duality of the first Jew, with one life based in reason and another in ...