Laying the everyday experience of Black life in 1950s America against Cthulhuian nightmares, Misha Green and Jordan Peele's Lovecraft Country suggests intriguing parallels that are often lost in its narrative dead-ends.
Before terrifying us, Peele overwhelms with cultural signifiers untethered from their referents in his latest, Us.
Danny Goldberg's In Search of The Lost Chord: 1967 and The Hippie Idea resonates with today's activist readers.
Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman most dramatically reveals how race is a performance, not a biological essence, as it focuses on the importance of language in structuring racial representations.
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" has been embedded in black America's DNA for more than 100 years. We've sung it every February ever since Black History Month was a thing, and every December since Kwanzaa was a thing.
Biographer Patrick Parr takes readers through a vital and decisive phase of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life virtually unexplored by other biographers.
Theoharis's work is deeply (and sadly) relevant to our current condition. Many of the same issues Theoharis decries -- media inattention, liberal passivity on racial justice issues, government harassment of activists -- are still in play.
Separate and Unequal provides a riveting account of a crucial moment in US history. It offers a penetrating insight into the manner in which good intentions and just causes necessarily confront the mechanisms of governmental bureaucracy.
The United States has pulled back from the brink of authoritarianism before. But a new study reveals the daunting challenges the country faces in preserving its democracy.
Kevin Young painstakingly presents the history of hoaxes and why we keep falling for the same old shtick.
There's really nothing quite like this in other collections of "primitive" art, or even in the grand narrative painting from the European tradition.
A classic Parliament track inspires a new look at how black Americans moved, made connections, and created a nation-within-a-nation.
Cartoon County reminds that beneath a post-WWII decade of seeming complacency and prosperity, comics strips were clear reflections of a society in transition.
No matter where you are on the wokeness spectrum, the Black Power era has yet to stop informing.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's powerful narrative, The Warmth of Other Suns, is vital to understanding the plight of African Americans, vital to understanding the United States, and should not be ignored.
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