Highlights

Part of a collection on the events of Jan. 6, one year later. By Puffin Foundation Fellow Rebecca Solnit for The New York Times.

From Seneca Village to “urban renewal,” the government has claimed Black property-rarely with the “just compensation” promised by the Fifth amendment. By Alfred Knobler Fellow Elie Mystal in The Nation.

The artist talks about “The New Black Aesthetic,” his new exhibit timed to All-Star Weekend, and the complex relationship between sports and Black men. by Mychal Denzel Smith for GQ.

The poet Solmaz Sharif takes a certain pleasure from the scene at airports when flights are delayed and the people around her are frustrated and tired. “I have a sense of, ‘Welcome. Welcome to how I feel all the time,’” she told me this past December. Interview by Rozina Ali for Lux Magazine.