Our parents perished in beeping rooms, Their funerals pixellated: freezing:

saved from the slaughter by that elect and exile people

The New York Times documentary on Britney Spears isn’t about her music. It’s is largely about the media, and the people who consume it.

“Black is not the absence of color. Black is a particular color,” the artist Kerry James Marshall tells us. The particularity of Blackness as it pertains to art is the backbone of this documentary.

Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. offers a thought-provoking journey through American history using the Black church as an entry point and a lens for critical examination. 

Max Jacob, a poet and painter, reminds us of the complex possibilities of a life lived passionately, ardently, playfully and in torment.