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Practicing Faith as a Black Woman in America

Yolanda Pierce's book considers the promise of the Black church.

WandaVision leaves us with many questions, and they are deeper than the plot points themselves.

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Anthony Mandler's new film pushes audiences to question the U.S. penal system, not the people caught in it.

The stories I read this week on the internet reminded me of the Ten Commandments, so please indulge this loose paraphrase of Exodus 20:

A review of Jeffrey Bilbro's Reading the Times.

A poem.

A review of Robert Jones Jr.'s The Prophets.

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

An unlikely partnership in Kentucky.

Showtime's Work In Progress plumbs pain and humor.

Fiction writer Deesha Philyaw explores their complexities.

How jazz taught me to resist videos of memed violence where Black pain is only spectacle.