Art

Black nerds unite: Blerd City Con is coming to New York!

NYC performer welcomes a world without anti-Blackness in “immersive abolitionist fairy-tale,” ‘Neptune’

Wakanda wins the World Cup! Artist designs incredible jerseys for the fictional ‘Black Panther’ country

Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions hires Black queer scholar to ensure better representation

Rwandan publishing house Imagine We is cultivating African storytelling for global readers

Smithsonian Museum of African American History acquires Wakandan artifacts

Comic: Straight people, I am not your Po-Gay-mon

The Obsidian Collection and Google are working to digitize Black legacy newspapers for a modern world

Poetry reading is up in America, but there’s still more work to be done to sustain readers

Urban planning pioneer Toni Griffin wins award after subverting rules to highlight segregation

Watch: Kofi Siriboe’s new documentary leads a necessary discussion about Black mental health

16 Black actresses protest anti-Blackness in the industry at Cannes Film Festival

Review Roundup: Zora Neale Hurston’s book on one of the last Africans in the Atlantic slave trade

Book publicist Saraciea Fennell is bringing a POC centered book festival to the Bronx-It’s lit!

Spike Lee receives standing ovation for “BlacKkKlansman” in triumphant return to Cannes

NBA winner Jacqueline Woodson releases excerpt from new book, “Harbor Me”

Jordan Peele reveals title of new film, Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke rumored to star

Comic: We need to take the mental health of Black women far more seriously

Marvel taps Nnedi Okorafor to write Wakanda Forever series starring the Dora Milaje

Oakland café refuses to serve cops, garners community support despite controversy

Finalists for 30th annual Lambda Literary awards honoring LGBTQ literature announced

‘Get Out’s Jordan Peele makes history as the first Black person to win Best Original Screenplay Oscar

Comic: Seeing Black children flourish in ‘Black Panther’ excitement makes me beam

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward signs new two book deal

Comic: We know why y’all keep trying to distance yourselves from slavery

Pre-NOI Malcolm X and Redd Foxx’s misadventures to be explored in new comedic cartoon, ‘Little Red’

Here’s a list of 20 of the dopest Black comics set to takeover 2018. You’re welcome!

Kendrick Lamar drops first single from Black Panther soundtrack ft. SZA

“Family Feud” video leads to a feud between the Catholic League and Jay-Z

Comic: I’m tired of homophobia and feigned Afrocentrism from Black Christians

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