On Human-Nature Solidarity: A Conversation between Poet Ashia S. Ajani and Botanist Beronda L. Montgomery - Adi Magazine

In this conversation Ashia S. Ajani (Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants, Timber Press, 2026) and Beronda L. Montgomery (When Trees

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From the segregated schoolhouse to Beyonce: the power of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’

The power of the song ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ has endured for more than a century. The new documentary, ‘A New Day Begun: The Black National Anthem’ traces the song’s origins in the Jim Crow era a...

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Mississippians March for 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley, Demanding Justice After Police Shooting

On a sweltering Friday morning at a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi, nearly 100 protesters gathered to memorialize Kohen Kartier Wiley.

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Editor’s Note | Even Jim Crow Is ‘Colorblind’ Now Under This Supreme Court. I Am Not.

News Editor Ashton Pittman argues that the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act “relies on feigned colorblindness to racist systems,” enabling even Jim Crow-style policies…

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Supreme Court Allows Alabama to Use US House Map That Eliminates a Majority-Black District

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Alabama to use a congressional map favoring Republicans in this year’s elections.

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Nora Holt: The Most Famous Woman You've Never Heard of

A largely forgotten figure of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Renaissance, Holt was a Black female musician, composer, critic and free spirit, and she has a story that deserves to be told.

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Eddie Glaude: Don't Let MAGA Own America's 250th Anniversary

As we barrel towards July 4th, Trump wants the celebration of our country's 250th anniversary to be not only about him but also about America as a white republic.

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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others

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Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

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'All eyes ought to be on the South': Imani Perry and Eddie Glaude on the GOP's 'white power grab'

Southern states are taking advantage of a pair of recent Supreme Court decisions in order to quickly re-make their congressional maps ahead of November’s midterms. In effect, the political power of many Black Americans are being taken away. “All eyes ought to be on the South,” Harvard professor Imani Perry tells Antonia Hylton. Princeton professor Eddie Glaude adds that what’s happening is “a political will to white power.”

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Book Riot's Deals of the Day for May 3, 2026

There's lots of great nonfiction, including Imani Perry's latest, the hunt for America's first serial killer, and more of today's best deals!

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Extract — Black in Blues: How a Colour Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry

Read an extract from Imani Perry's Black in Blues: How a Colour Tells the Story of My People (Allen Lane, 2026).

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Remembering Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and being bound together

Each year, the Billie Holiday Center for Liberation Arts sponsors a free public lecture. The most recent lecture covered Frances Ellen Watkins Harper in celebration of her 200th birthday. Harper was t...

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

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Blues to Africa: The Randy Weston Centennial

A special concert celebrating pianist and composer Randy Weston's contributions to the jazz canon and his enduring musical legacy.

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WORKSHOPS — JAMI ATTENBERG

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