Hannah Giorgis
Along with Michelle Duster, Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Hannah recently co-wrote Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, she was the special projects editor at The Ringer. At The Atlantic, she primarily covers culture.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Paras Griffin; Prince … George Clooney’s Tequila Is Taking Over Rap
All of a sudden, it seems like Casamigos is name-checked in every song.
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Netflix How Reality Dating Shows Stoke Racial Tensions
Lauren and Cameron, Love Is Blind’s breakout stars, have succeeded not because of the show but in spite of it.
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Merrick Morton / HBO Barry Isn’t a Comedy Anymore. But It’s Become an Even Better Show.
Season 3 of Bill Hader’s HBO series about a listless hitman, which ended Sunday, marked a stark shift toward the show’s darker impulses.
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Universal / Everett; The Atlantic The Review: Knocked Up
Sophie Gilbert, Megan Garber, and Hannah Giorgis discuss Hollywood and the way it depicts abortion (or doesn’t).
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters; Charlie Le Maignan / … Pop Music’s Nostalgia Obsession
Why do older sounds seem to dominate music lately?
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Chauncey Hare Under the Fluorescent Lights
Chauncey Hare captured the drudgery of office life in order to protest it.
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Getty; The Atlantic Eight Books That Reevaluate American History
In these recent works, Black innovations and labor receive the prominence they deserve in popular narratives.
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Barry Wetcher / Universal; Charlie Le Maignan / … America Needs a Rom-Com Bailout
“It’s this or porn, people.”
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Coveteur / Trunk Archive How Issa Rae Built the World of Insecure
The show’s behind-the-scenes collaborations were as important to its success as the bonds portrayed on-screen.
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Graeme Hunter / HBO / Charlie Le Maignan … Succession Is a Game of Monopoly
Did the finale finally flip over the board?
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Courtesy of HBO; Charlie Le Maignan; The Atlantic ‘It’s a Safe Space for Mean Humor’
The boar is on the floor. The Greggs are in the Tomelettes. And Season 3 of Succession is finally here.
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Lyne Lucien What Makes a Black Woman Real?
The problem with fixating on botched-plastic-surgery stories
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Illustration by Danielle Del Plato* Not Enough Has Changed Since Sanford and Son
The unwritten rules of Black TV
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Pari Dukovic / FX Pray Tell and the Church of Pose
In its final season, the FX series exposed the heavy toll of religious stigma for countless queer people—and illuminated the beauty of a different sort of fellowship.
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Netflix Why We Watch Relationships Fall Apart
The latest season of Master of None charts the slow demise of a marriage. But if we don’t know what drew a couple together, we can’t empathize with what caused them to split.
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Atsushi Nishijima / Amazon Studios What Sets Amazon’s The Underground Railroad Apart From Other Slavery Stories
Directed by Barry Jenkins, the visually stunning series depicts the landscape—its terrain, its sounds, its emotional significance—with rare complexity.
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Getty / Adeshola Makinde / The Atlantic The Fleeting Promise of a Peaceful Ethiopia
A new prime minister was met with overwhelming optimism that he would help stem the country’s long-standing tensions. But military violence in the Tigray region dispels any hope of a unified republic.
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Chris Pizzello / Getty And the Best Oscars Acceptance Speech Goes to …
When Youn Yuh-jung collected her latest trophy for Minari, she showed everyone why she keeps winning.
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Amazon Studios Who Wants to Watch Black Pain?
More Black storytellers are turning to the horror genre to unpack the traumas of racism. But some viewers are growing tired of these stories.
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Will Heath / NBC The Surprising Comedic Genius of Daniel Kaluuya
The actor has risen to fame largely for tackling meaty, dramatic roles. But his SNL performance proved he’s also a formidable comic.
