February 22, 2021, Filed Under: Featured1, PhotographyPortfolio of photographs acquired from Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black In 2017, renowned portraitist Dawoud Bey (American, b. 1953) reflected on his four-decade career by stating simply, “my work has largely been based on representation of the human subject.” He explained that he has used photography to depict “subjects such as the black subject, or young people, who are not always—within the larger… read more
February 1, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1A lost work by Langston Hughes In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race, unpublished in English until 2019. It’s not every day that you come across an extraordinary unknown work by one of the nation’s greatest writers. But buried in an unrelated archive, I discovered a searing essay condemning racism in… read more
