The New York Times – Film:
The documentary, by the director of “Who Killed Malcolm X?,” is a compelling biography of Ernest Withers, whose photographs helped chronicle Black history.
Category: Civil Rights Movement (1954-68)
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Jackie Robinson Museum Focuses on Civils Rights and Baseball
The New York Times – Sports:
Robinson accomplished a great deal on the field, but a museum celebrating his life — that will have a ribbon-cutting this week — puts as much focus on his civil rights work.
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When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad Magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta.” It’s all at the Jewish Museum.
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Willie Lee Morrow, Barber Who Popularized the Afro Pick, Dies at 82
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
He built an empire around hair care products aimed at African American consumers, including a softener that inspired the Jheri curl.
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Review: After 36 Years, a Malcolm X Opera Sings to the Future
The New York Times – Music:
Anthony Davis’s “X” has stretches of incantation that, in person, turn it into something like a sacred rite.
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The Artists Turning Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Into a Creative Destination
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton and Ellen Gallagher are working both to preserve and transform the North Carolina house where she was born.
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Jason Jules and The Making of Black Ivy Style
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
A new book examines how Black civil rights leaders, jazzmen, artists and writers rewrote the sartorial codes of a largely white elite.