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Venus Williams made her professional tennis debut in 1994. Her sister Serena followed her in 1995. That is more than 20 years of Williams sisters not only dominating the world [...]

DON'T LET IT GET YOU DOWN Essays on Race, Gender, and the BodyBy Savala Nolan In ''The Art of the Black Essay,'' the scholar Cheryl Blanche Butler declared that ''the [...]

'That is the thing about status. We all want it, but, should we acquire it, we don't want it to mean anything. We don't want to feel bad about having [...]

The article discusses the persisting racial inequality in the U.S. nearly sixty years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Topics covered include the need for African American workers to hustle more in order to get ahead, the gentrification that displaces black and poor people, and the importance of collective action.

WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER A Memoir in Essays By Damon Young Damon Young has something to say about modern black life. The only question is: Which Damon [...]

Historically black colleges and universities played a heroic role educating African Americans during the long era when most institutions of higher education were for whites only. At a time when [...]

'A lot of our burnout and ennui is not about being tired. It is about being unsupported. Child care, transit, elder care and health care would do more for our [...]

AMYTHYST KIAH album Wary + Strange | liner notes An alum of East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program, Kiah already has a Grammy nomination for penning "Black Myself " in 2020. Critically for a writer, Joy, Allison, Adia, Amythyst, and Brittney are in the part of the celebrity cycle where they are still interesting, still talk like humans. Features ALBUM A Southern Gothic | LINER NOTES As the title of her latest album suggests, the South Carolina native's sonic creations are imbued with the deep hues of gothic indie blues - tales of life that both unsettle and intrigue listeners. Joy Oladokun, Allison Russell, Adia Victoria, Amythyst Kiah, and Brittney Spencer have bits of it all in their songwriting and stagecraft. [Extracted from the article]

Thick: And Other EssaysTressie McMillan Cottom. New Press, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-62097-436-0In eight incisive, witty, and provocative essays, debut author Cottom (Lower Ed), a Virginia Commonwealth University assistant sociology professor, [...]

The article focuses on the legacies being created by African American tennis player Venus Williams and her sister Serena who are not only dominating the world of tennis but are also instrumental in creating several fashion lines, a venture-capital firm, and an interior-design company.

But whereas young Combs's dedication was to family, friends, and making enough money to buy the kind of freedom he felt like the world was denying him, the elder Combs is dedicated to making that freedom possible for others. Features PHOTOGRAPHS BY CARLOS "KAITO" ARAUJO STYLED BY JUNE AMBROSE CROSSING THE THRESHOLD of Sean Combs's Los Angeles home is an immersive experience. As the late 1990s were giving way to the 21st century, Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs had taken hip-hop iconography to scale. SEAN "LOVE" COMBS is a man standing at the crossroads of several sea changes. [Extracted from the article]

For the January/February cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates interviewed Barack Obama and analyzed his legacy as America's first black president. 'This is the best postmortem on the Obama presidency I've yet [...]

It is also therallying cry for many of the black people who have earneda college degree but earn less than white workers doingsimilar jobs. Although workers inother states have seen their paychecks goup because of state and local increases inthe minimum wage, in Durham the rateremains at the federal level of $7.25 an hour. Many black workers outside the middle class make upwhat is known as the gig economy, taking on jobs that treatthem like independent contractors even though they workthem like employees. The soft-skills jobs that trade in relationshipsare difficult ones for black workers to break into. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the author's experiences with America's medical care system as a black female patient and the mother of a baby daughter who died shortly after her birth. Assumptions of incompetence are addressed, along with statistics which indicates that black women are more likely to die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related causes that white women. Sociologist Patricia Hill Collins' views are also assessed.

A startling population health phenomenon has been unfolding since the turn of the 21st century. Whites in the United States, who customarily have the most favorable mortality profile of all racial groups, have experienced rising mortality rates, without a commensurate rise in other racial groups. The two leading hypotheses to date are that either contemporaneous economic conditions or longer-term (post-1970s) economic transformations have led to declining economic and social prospects of low-educated whites, culminating in “deaths of despair.” We re-examine these hypotheses and investigate a third hypothesis: mortality increases are attributable to (false) perceptions of whites that they are losing social status.