The director on making history: “I’m honored to be the first person of the African diaspora to be named president of the Cannes jury and of a main film festival.”
Conservatives want to strip public schools of their funding if they don’t force student athletes to play sports with people who match the gender they were assigned at birth.
Executive Producer Brie Miranda Bryant: “It shouldn’t really be through a documentary, it should be through the legal system that these things are handled.”
The Colorlines team is sharing our favorite shows, books, hashtags, movies and more of 2019. Here, arts and culture writer N. Jamiyla Chisholm reflects on the lessons embedded in “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.”
“I became very interested in European painting when I realized that there was an opportunity to paint Indigenous histories and experiences and authorize them into this art history that had pretty much neglected our perspectives.”
Following the historic vote in the House of Representatives, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will hold the articles until the Senate agrees to a fair trial.
The Black Mississippi man who made national headlines for being racially targeted and tried six times for the same crime is now home—but may face a seventh trial.
