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“The Selected Works of Audre Lorde”
Parul Sehgal’s review of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” is a beautiful reflection on the depth and brilliance of Lorde’s work and continued influence. “Lorde, like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, is vulnerable to selective quotation. Black writers can be treated as oracles, read symbolically, with lazy reverence; their work is flattened into self-help…
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Links for the Voracious
A little something from around the internet. “To be able to have the ability to bring other people in, who I think are massively more talented, it’s something that brings me so much excitement.” -Issa Rae, creator and star of “Insecure” “And of course we want an economic recovery! But we’re never going to have…
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The One and Only Yola
Yola’s “Walk Through Fire” is an album I can’t stop recommending to people. It is gorgeous and generous, entrancing from the first note to the last. Yola’s voice and guitar playing are tender, precise, and powerful. She commands her musical gifts with singular grace. Yola has the rare ability to create the simultaneous and contradictory…
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Little Richard is Gone
The final member of the Rock N’ Roll triumvirate has passed. May Little Richard rest in peace and paradise with the ancestors and may the memories of those moved and transformed by his music be long. Little Richard was a righteously vainglorious genius. He was the blueprint for the energy, the showmanship, and the verve…
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