Kaitlyn Greenidge

She's lit up some of the most otherworldly sci-fi epics of our time. But with her performance in the musical Emilia Pérez, the Golden Globe winner finally gets to reveal the very human source of that power.

Dr. Bernice King, the CEO of the King Center and the youngest daughter of the civil rights leader, has some ideas.

We have been living in “unprecedented times” for 25 years. Kaitlyn Greenidge reflects on what it means to write through a new reality.

Three authors share what they read, watched, and listened to while writing books about their separation

Activists and longtime advocates for the environment, immigration reform, reproductive justice, and trans rights talk about what comes next, no matter who wins.

This past year, whenever I’ve felt like I’ve needed an escape from our current reality, which is often, I’ve dived into reading histories of 20th-century New York City. I love this genre in part for the fleeting glimpses it provides of the types of people we used to call characters: people who convey an entire life story in a single gesture or turn of phrase or biographical detail. In Smash Cut, a memoir of falling in love at the brink of the AIDS crisis in the late 1970s, Brad Gooch mentions, i…

Hours after Joe Biden stepped down from the presidential race, thousands of Black women got together to raise over $1 million for presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris

The 1996 film is enjoying a welcome reissue this summer. Here, director Bridgett M. Davis and the Black Film Archive’s Maya Cade talk representation and artists going where the love is.

Five years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones published The 1619 Project in The New York Times. Timed to coincide with and reflect upon the 400th anniversary of Black people’s arrival in America, the project had an immediate, visceral impact. For many readers, the history explored in the project—which centered Black American experiences—was a revelation. Many others perceived it as a threat: The book version of The 1619 Project, published in 2021, has been banned by numerous school districts and libraries…

When you visit Paulette Greene and Donna Dear, you have to bring something with you. For our offering, we’ve chosen cheesesteaks. Paulette and Donna exploded into the internet’s consciousness this past summer after a short documentary about them, The Aunties, premiered at the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia. The couple have been married for nearly a decade but together for 50 years. They’re also stewards of Mt. Pleasant Acres Farms, a 111-acre parcel of land in Preston, Maryland, that t…