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"Lust. Of all things. Black."

The black male show

Amiri Baraka

Wayne Shorter

Jimi Hendrix

John Coltrane

Gone fishing: remembering Lester Bowie

The black artists' group

Butch Morris

Charles Edward Anderson Berry and the history of our future

Lonnie Holley

Marion Brown (1931-2010) and Djinji Brown

Dark angels of dust: David Hammons and the art of streetwise transcendentalism

Bill T. Jones: combative moves

Gary Simmons: conceptual bomber

The persistence of vision: storyboard P

Manchild at large: one-on-one with Ice Cube, hip-hop's most wanted

Wynton Marsalis: jazz crusader

Thornton Dial: free, black, and brightening up the darkness of the world

Kehinde Wiley

Rammellzee: the ikonoklast samurai

Richard Pryor: Pryor lives

Richard Pryor Obit

Gil Scott-Heron

The man in our mirror: Michael Jackson

Miles Davis

She laughing mean and impressive too

Born to Dyke: I love my sister laughing and then again when she's looking mean, queer and impressive

Joni Mitchell: black and blond

Azealia Banks

Sade: black magic woman

All the things you could be by now if James Brown was a feminist

Itabari Njeri

Kara Walker

Women at the edge of space, time, and art: ruminations on Candida Romero's little girls

Ellen Gallagher

To bid a poet black and abstract

"The Gikuyu mythos versus the Cullud grrrl from outta space": a Wangechi Mutu feature

Come join the hieroglyphic zombie parade: Deborah Grant

Björk's second act

The golden age: Thelma Golden

Hello Darknuss my old meme

Top ten reasons why so few black women were down to occupy wall street plus four more

What is hip-hop?

Intelligence data: Bob Dylan

Hip-hop turns thirty

Love and crunk: outkast

White freedom: Eminem

Wu-Dunit: Wu-Tang Clan

Unlocking the truth vs. John Cage

Screenings

Spike Lee's bamboozled

It's a Mack thing

Sex and negrocity: John Singleton's baby boy

Lincoln in whiteface: Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle in Suzan-Lori Parks's topdog/underdog

The black power mixtape

Race, sex, politricks, and belles lettres

Major's league

The Atlantic sound: Caryl Phillips's the atlantic sound

Apocalypse now: Patricia Hill Collins's Black sexual politics; Thomas Shevory's Notorious H.I.V.; Jacob Levenson's The secret epidemic

Blood and bridges

Nigger 'Tude

Triple threat: Jerry Gafio Watts's Amiri Baraka; Hazel Rowley's Richard Wright; David Macey's Frantz Fanon

Bottom feeders: Natsuo Kirino's out

Scaling the heights: Maryse Conde's Windward heights

Fear of a Mongrel planet: Zadie Smith's White teeth

Adventures in the skin trade: Lisa Teasley's glow in the dark

Generations hexed: Jeffery Renard Allen's Rails under my back

Going underground: Gayl Jones's Mosquito

Judgment day: Toni Morrison's Love and Edward P. Jones's The known world

Black modernity and laughter, or how it came to be that n*g*as got jokes

Kalahari Hopscotch, or notes toward a twenty-volume Afrocentric futurist manifesto.

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