Hannah Giorgis
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Amazon The Transcendent Final Season of Catastrophe
The boisterous Amazon Prime series from Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney ended with a finale that honored the love and grief of its protagonists and creators alike.
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Justin Stephens / CBS / The Atlantic Christine Baranski Leads the Best #Resistance Show on Television
The Good Fight, featuring the actor as the feminist lawyer Diane Lockhart, is responding to the Trump presidency by leaning way, way in.
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Mulugeta Ayene / AP The Western Erasure of African Tragedy
Media coverage of the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 framed a horrifying accident in appallingly familiar ways.
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Jamie McCarthy / Getty What Solange’s When I Get Home Shares With Stevie Wonder’s Most Esoteric Album
The musician’s first studio project since A Seat at the Table emphasizes the revelatory power of repetition.
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Bennett Raglin / OWN The Most Notable Part of Oprah Winfrey’s After Neverland Special
The former talk-show host’s interview focused on connecting the stories of Michael Jackson’s accusers to experiences shared by many beyond the star’s orbit.
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Rich Fury / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Expansive Vision of Africa
The 12 Years a Slave actor on writing and directing his first feature film, about a Malawian boy’s innovation in the face of famine: “There is no generic African space.”
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Chris Pizzello / Invision / AP The Magnitude of Black Panther’s Technical-Oscar Wins
The Marvel juggernaut took away two awards early in the ceremony—for costume design and production design—marking the first time black artists won in either category.
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Lake County Historical Society The Documentary Highlighting the Real Green Book
A new Smithsonian Channel film positions the guidebook for black travelers as a necessary response to white-supremacist violence—and as a community-building tool.
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Steven Ferdman / Getty Tarell Alvin McCraney Channeled Athletes’ Dissent to Write High Flying Bird
The Moonlight alum on his new Steven Soderbergh–directed NBA labor drama, sports as a vehicle for connection, and the parallels between athletics and Hollywood
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Mike Blake / Reuters Drake Cements the Grammys’ Irrelevance
In his acceptance speech for Best Rap Song, the musician adopted a surprisingly critical tone that echoed industry-wide whispers of the Recording Academy’s obsolescence.
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Netflix The Glorious Vulgarity of the Big Mouth Valentine’s Day Special
The new double episode on Netflix brings both genuine heart and warmhearted raunch to the classic holiday.
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Paras Griffin / Getty 21 Savage and the False Promise of Black Citizenship
The callous response to the rapper’s detainment by ICE shows how easily the rhetoric of law-enforcement agencies can influence public opinion.
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Dimitrios Kambouris / Scott Legato / Getty / ... A New Wave of Documentaries Is Taking On Sexual Assault
Allegations against R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, and Michael Jackson have spawned film projects—some more delicately crafted than others.
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Stefan Heunis / AFP / Getty Images Chigozie Obioma’s Homerian Epic
The Man Booker finalist’s second book explores the transcontinental sacrifices made for love. It’s also an acute narrative about the indignities of traveling as an outsider.
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Laura Buckman / Reuters The Faulty Logic in Trump’s Travel Ban
The president’s stated purpose was to keep terrorists out, but his plan has all kinds of problems.
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Scott Olson / Getty Reckoning With R. Kelly
A new documentary puts years of abuse allegations into sharp focus.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Kamala Harris’s Political Memoir Is an Uneasy Fit for the Digital Era
The senator’s new book shows the difficulty of translating short-form virality into a substantive text.
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Getty Images Sandra Oh Wins a Golden Globe—And the Night
The ceremony’s co-host, who also picked up a trophy, embodied the best of the evening: warmth, sincerity, and a willingness to recognize the many contributions made by creators of color.
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Marc J. Terrill / AP Surviving R. Kelly Is an Uncomfortable, Visual Testimony
A new Lifetime docuseries about the artist’s alleged abuses pointedly homes in on a network of enablers in his immediate circles and his fan base.
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David Livingston / Getty The Missed Opportunity of Love Is
The OWN drama billed itself as a celebration of a complicated but relatable real-life romance. Abuse allegations against one of its creators made the show’s premise a queasier proposition.
