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The Met Pays Tribute to New York’s Great Black Artists
[ad_1] An installation view of ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ at the Met. Courtesy The Met, Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen Among New York…
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Politics
How Black Americans Kept Reconstruction Alive
[ad_1] The Civil War produced two competing narratives, each an attempt to make sense of a conflict that had eradicated the pestilence of slavery.…
Politics
What The Atlantic Got Wrong About Reconstruction
[ad_1] The last time The Atlantic decided to reckon with Reconstruction in a sustained way, its editor touted “a series of scholarly, unpartisan studies…
Politics
Black Success, White Backlash
[ad_1] For more than half a century, I have been studying the shifting relations between white and Black Americans. My first journal article, published…
Humor
White Artist Reassures Self That People Will Love Painting Of Emmett Till Dunking Basketball
[ad_1] NEW YORK—Pushing away any lingering concerns that the portrait might stir up unintended controversy, white artist Daniel Immelmann reportedly reassured himself Tuesday that…