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REVIEW: Andrew Dosunmu’s “Restless City”

Nothing short of a visual feast.

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History and Legacy with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Simone Leigh

Natalie Peart on using history to interact with the present

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REVIEW: Dee Rees’ “Pariah”

A universal story of young woman gaining the confidence to declare her individuality.

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REVIEW: Meshell Ndegeocello – “Weather”

An album from a woman who has seen love in all its colors and lived to tell about it

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REVIEW: Doomtree — “No Kings”

The Minnesota hip hop collective delivers a strong year-end album

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REVIEW: Van Hunt — “What Were You Hoping For?”

The indie rock and soul genre smasher delivers his most sonically pleasing work to date.

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REVIEW: Saul Williams — “Volcanic Sunlight” (Columbia)

Saul Williams’ sprawling, experimental and joyfully tense follow up to “Niggy Tardust”

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REVIEW: Alrick Brown’s “Kinyarwanda”

A beautifully realized film brings out the humanity in both the heroes and the villains of the Rwandan genocide.

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Worth Seeing: Rashaad Newsome’s 21st Century Heraldry

Even though his NYC gallery exhibit closes this week, Rashaad Newsome is a name you’ll want to remember.

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LIVE @ NYPL: Doing A Lemonade With Gilberto Gil

Natalie Peart sits in on a conversation with the co-creator of tropicalia.

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GOOD READS: #TrayvonMartin Around The Web

So much conversation–and now maybe some justice–for this young man.

GOOD READ: Charles Blow on the Trayvon Martin case

Will an innocent black boy get justice?

What’s Race Got To Do With It?

The antidote to the country’s first black president

Why Is The N.Y.P.D. After Me?

A 23-year-old New Yorker talks about having been stopped and frisked by NYPD at least five times.

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over The GOP

Those on the extreme right are different. Here’s how and why.

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