One of the most arresting images in On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, the second feature by Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, arrives in the opening seconds. A Black woman sits in […]
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Art on Borrowed Time (on the exhibitions Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and Chakaia Booker: Treading New Ground at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.)
It is a strange thing to visit a museum these days—especially in Washington, D.C. I have restlessly visited galleries in this town for almost twenty years; in fact, I moved […]
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For the past few years, I have been engaged in an intense argument with myself. This argument reached a climax last May, a few moments after I saw the film […]
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Last November I tuned in to the latest episode of the newsmagazine 60 Minutes with great interest. I’ve been watching since I was a child—back then it was our weekly […]
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