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Who Is the Black Incel? ‘The Beauty’ Examines the Man Behind the Screen

You could scroll past FX’s The Beauty on Hulu, thinking it’s just spectacle, showing a virus that turns ordinary people into an alleged perfected version of themselves. The entire body changes, and the transformations are graphic, excessive, and sometimes grotesque. It plays like satire about filters, injectables, and our obsession with cosmetic shortcuts. But beneath […]

‘Black Photojournalism’ Brings Joy Alive — in Black and White

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Black Photojournalism, the latest exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, teeters somewhere towards infinity. Featuring the work of nearly 60 Black photographers who captured images from 1945 — the year EBONY first published — through Jesse Jackson’s 1984 presidential campaign, it stunningly (and maybe, […]

How the Latest “Wuthering Heights” Interpretation Is More Than Just Whitewashing; It’s a Pattern

Another adaptation of Wuthering Heights has arrived…and once again, it misses the point. Director Emerald Fennell recently explained that she isn’t making “Wuthering Heights,” quotes on her part, but rather “a version of it.” Yes, all adaptations are interpretations. But interpretation does not grant permission to erase racially coded characters.  Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel is […]