Black People

June 12, 2020

‘We Fascinated Them’: Shailah Edmonds on a Golden Era of Black Models

At a piano bar in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, just before night life shut down across the city, a 71-year-old former model named Shailah […]
June 6, 2020

City Summer, Country Summer

The Look 2020 City Summer, Country Summer A photographer and a writer separately explore black boyhood and the season. Photographs by Text by ImageCredit…Andre D. Wagner […]
June 1, 2020

How a City Once Consumed by Civil Unrest Has Kept Protests Peaceful

A weekend protest in Newark ended at the same intersection where one of the most wrenching and deadly of the race riots that convulsed the nation […]
May 14, 2020

André Leon Talley’s Tales from the Dark Side

There is a scene in “The September Issue,” the 2009 movie by R. J. Cutler about the making of the biggest Vogue of the year, that […]
April 12, 2020

How to Care for Your Relaxed Hair at Home

Much of the conversation surrounding black hair in recent years has been about caring for and styling natural hair, and for good reason. As news spread […]
March 27, 2020

Black Women Learn to Braid While Social Distancing

Niani Barracks usually tends to clients at a salon in Detroit, but now that she must stay indoors because of the coronavirus pandemic, she has instead […]
March 3, 2020

How to Respond to Microaggressions

For many of us, microaggressions are so commonplace that it seems impossible to tackle them one at a time. Psychologists often compare them to death by […]
February 4, 2020

Miuccia Prada Will Be Getting Sensitivity Training

In December 2018, Chinyere Ezie, a civil rights lawyer, posted a picture on Twitter that seemed to encapsulate a year’s worth of racial and cultural faux […]
December 25, 2019

Buying Black, Rebooted

“Where was this product made?” “Is this brand sustainable?” Those are common conscientious consumer queries these days. For a growing number of Americans, though, another question […]