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Them.** Braxton described a scene that takes place in the fifth episode, and it made me feel sick. While much of the menace in “Them” comes from things that go bump in the night, the most shocking horror lies in its more realistic scenes of racist violence, which are arguably more disturbing than the vivid images in its recent predecessors. The mayhem gains momentum in the fifth episode, which depicts the murder of a Black infant while his mother is raped and continues in a later episode with the blinding of a Black couple with hot pokers, and a white mob then burning them to death.

Photo by Daniele Levis Pelusi THE PURPOSE OF THE TRIP was to see my mother’s father one last time, but on the way in we stopped for a day in Mumbai to stretch our legs. I’d drawn a whole map for myself on the plane and now was following my dotted line through various markets and bakeries, culminating in a visit to the CSMVS, the city’s largest art museum. As with many other of India’s cultural institutions, the price for admission varies for local visitors and international tourists, and as I thumbed through my wallet in the queue, I realized that I’d overspent at the underground zi...

I IF I CAN BE CALLED A BIRD-WATCHER, my spark was a pair of burrowing owls, painted on the narrow storefront gate of a shuttered real estate business on 145th Street in Harlem that brokers single-room occupancy housing for two hundred dollars a week. I spotted them after ice-skating with one of my kids at the rink in the shadow of towering smokestacks at Riverbank State Park. The park is a concession to the community for the massive wastewater sewage plant hidden beneath it. It was midway through the Trump years: January, but not cold like Januaries when I was little, not cold enough to see y...

Listen 7 min MORE Kim Prince brings her family's legacy to her Baldwin Hills restaurant, Hotville Chicken. Photo by Andrea D’Agosto. Southern California's Black population grew considerably from 1940 to 1970, when Black people from the American South moved west and north for better job opportunities. The Second Great Migration also led to a hot trend in LA: Nashville hot chicken. Eater LA’s Mona Holmes profiles the Prince family, who moved from Nashville, Tennessee to Antelope Valley, California with a mouthwatering rec...

History of Black-owned businesses in Muskegon highlights ‘entrepreneurial gene’ Updated Feb 15, 2021; Posted Feb 15, 2021 Smitty's New & Used Furniture was the first Black-owned shop to open in the downtown Muskegon Heights business district. It was started by Malcolm and Alice Smith in 1968. (Photos provided by the Muskegon Heritage Museum) Facebook Share MUSKEGON, MI – From mom-and-pop corner stores to radio stations, Black-owned businesses have thrived in Muskegon for decades. Black business ownership in the community first started in the 1950s, and Kirk Bunke, site manager at the ...