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In a recent Time profile, Bad Bunny was asked about colorism and anti-Blackness in reggaetón. His response was less than ideal.

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On a brisk Sunday morning this past March, just before 8 a.m., a crowd is huddled around the Texas African American History Memorial outside the Texas Capitol, bouncing on their toes and rubbing their arms to keep warm in the 48-degree weather as they wait for their tour guide.   Javier Wallace walks up, his white […]

Amid a rise in conservative efforts opposed to teaching the lingering impacts of slavery and racism, the descendants of formerly enslaved people are using the Juneteenth holiday to educate younger generations.

Editor’s Note: Members of the Duke Community who missed the livestream of this discussion are invited to attend a watch party Wednesday, March 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture.

An unconventional National Hispanic Heritage Month panel held Oct. 12 at Duke unpacked and thoroughly discussed many complexities found within the Latinx identity, particularly for those living in the U.S. South. Its organizers aimed to shine a light on growing academic expertise on Latinx issues in the Triangle, while also urging Duke and surrounding institutions to reinvest in regional histories that provide an architecture for understanding the challenges and opportunities we face today.

For BIPOC Travelers, Heritage Trips Can Be Hard to Plan—These Companies Want to Change That Sarah Enelow-Snyder © Getty All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. “My 23andMe test solidified my desire to visit Nigeria,” says Kent Johnson, cofounder of the tour company Black & Abroad. When he received his ancestry results in late 2019, his stro...

Javier Wallace was born and raised in the shadow of the University of Texas. His grandfather Leonard Hill worked as a custodian at the institution starting in the late 1940s, when the university was not admitting Black students. Hill’s sisters worked there too, performing cooking and custodial duties on campus. Wallace, a Ph.D. candidate at UT, considers himself a legacy student of the university — not because of his mother who earned her undergraduate degree there in the 1980s, but becaus...

Black Austin Tour Civil Righteousness Austin presents a tour led by master storyteller and local historian Javier Wallace. Learn about the citys 1928 Master Plan and creation of the "Negro District," centered around East 11th Street, and virtually visit important sites and institutions and engage in dialogue about the changing nature of East Austin and the citys Black community. Past date: Sun., Jan. 17, 3-5pm Virtual