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Zakiya Dalila Harris’s psychological thriller grapples with ambition and inequality in the workplace.

A new documentary, "Whose Streets?," shows how protest centered the movement against police brutality.

Gwendolyn Brooks’s life and work asserted the humanity of black people in America.

A new Brooklyn Museum exhibition about black female artists offers a blueprint for the future of feminism.

David Callahan's new book "The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age" looks at wealth, charity, and how the superrich shape public policy to their own ends.

Kevin Coval's new collection creates community through history.

The second season of this brilliant British comedy presents a refreshing interrogation of normality.

This mythic figure is having a moment. But to adopt his point of view is to look for meaning around all the wrong corners.

Why her painting of Emmett Till at the Whitney Biennial insults his memory.

How a new exhibition of Alice Neel's paintings, curated by Hilton Als, reflexively explores relationships and identity.

A new film, "I Am Not Your Negro," tracks the late writer’s attempt to document the martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement.

The language we used was a reflection of our dark, disturbing year.

Mark Lilla argues that the Democratic Party needs to move beyond identity politics. But that's precisely where the country's salvation lies.

On Issa Rae’s new show, black women are bonded, not divided, by their insecurities.

Just ask Roman Polanski or Bill Cosby.