An installation view of ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ at the Met. Courtesy The Met, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen Among New York neighborhoods, Harlem has long stood…
Read more The Met Pays Tribute to New York’s Great Black ArtistsThe Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery. Black Americans who believed in…
Read more How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction AliveThe last time The Atlantic decided to reckon with Reconstruction in a sustained way, its editor touted “a series of scholarly, unpartisan studies of the Reconstruction Period” as…
Read more What The Atlantic Got Wrong About ReconstructionFor more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published in 1972, when I was…
Read more Black Success, White BacklashNEW YORK—Pushing away any lingering concerns that the portrait might stir up unintended controversy, white artist Daniel Immelmann reportedly reassured himself Tuesday that people would love his portrait…
Read more White Artist Reassures Self That People Will Love Painting Of Emmett Till Dunking Basketball
