Kara Walker, ‘Tired of Standing Up,’ Promises Art, Not Answers
Kara Walker with her art installation at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn in 2014.Credit...Abe Frajndlich for The New York Times By Blake Gopnik Aug. 16, 2017 “I am tired,…
The Beginning or the End of America
During Black History Month we share a letter written by James Baldwin, one of the foremost novelists and public intellectuals of the 20th century. In 1970 Baldwin wrote an open letter to…
Civil War Widows
A woman who died in 1998 was married to a man who was born a slave and fought in the civil war in the union army. {listen} here is her…