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OWN Communications Queen Sugar Is the Most Luxurious Show on Television
The gorgeous family drama takes its time unraveling and honoring the particularities of Black life.
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Greg Gayne / Peacock / Getty Bel-Air and the Flawed Logic of ‘Black Excellence’
Several recent Black shows have leaned into glitzy melodrama and decadent escapism. They also feel completely out of step with their core audience.
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Christian Witkin / Trunk Archive André Leon Talley Defined Style on His Own Terms
The pioneering editor had a vision for a more democratic fashion world—and it stretched far past the pages of Vogue.
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Associated Press How Rihanna’s Fenty Line Is Challenging Luxury-Fashion Norms
The singer places her new collection squarely within a black aesthetic tradition—and in doing so, reimagines the industry’s ideal customer.
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Claudette Barius / Universal Pictures To Understand Us, Pay Attention to the Outfits
The deeper meaning behind the red jumpsuits, the leather glove, and Lupita Nyong’o’s costumes—according to the woman who designed them
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Universal Pictures What the ‘Hollywood Jim Crow’ Looks Like Today
The supposedly color-blind language of economics has allowed the mainstream film industry to hide its racial biases, a new book argues.
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Erika Doss / 20th Century Fox The Complexity of Black Girlhood Is at the Heart of The Hate U Give
The film adaptation of Angie Thomas’s YA novel offers a startlingly honest portrait of its heroine confronting buried trauma to find her political voice.
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OWN The Revolutionary Power of Pies in Queen Sugar
Season 3 has offered a compelling portrait of a middle-aged, African American woman chasing her dreams of entrepreneurship. The result is the kind of story that exists nowhere else on TV.
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ABC The Episode That Captured the Best and Worst of Scandal
As the political soap nears its end, it’s worth recalling the hour that embodied both the show’s early promise and unfortunate excesses.
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Marvel Why Fashion Is Key to Understanding the World of Black Panther
The Oscar-nominated costume designer Ruth Carter on how she created the style of the film’s fictional African nation of Wakanda
