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2021 was full of excellent televlsion series and documentaries. Find out the best strains to pair with the best 2021 streaming shows

Shakeia Taylor is a writer based in Chicago. Her work focuses on the intersection of Black culture and sport in America.

Print Black characters are hunted, persecuted and worse. Gay people are boiled alive. Women are shunted aside. Welcome to the middle of the 20th century, as imagined by some of the most prestigious TV series of this awards season. Shows like “Lovecraft Country,” “Them,” “Ratched” and “The Queen’s Gambit” depict a potently non-romantic 1950s-era past. We’re a far cry from “Happy Days.” Filtering horror movie and melodrama ideas through thoroughly modern sensibilities, these series leave an acidic aftertaste as their heroes fight to be treated as human beings. Sometimes ...

Courtesy Henry Litsky May 02, 2021 My first memory of the pedestrian bridge is from my sophomore year, when I didn’t know where I was going. “The 19th Ward,” said the older student walking with me. “I’m going to live here.”  He didn’t say it out loud, but he didn’t have to — I could tell he thought the area was dangerous, that he was being brave and gracious by choosing to live there anyway. Based on how UR and its students usually spoke about the 19th Ward, that wasn’t surprising. My impression of the neighborhood was also negative, influenced by two y...

Though film and television studios have historically been slow at making concerted efforts at diversifying their industries, when it comes to Black