Ayo and Her Weird and Specific Things
Ayo Edebiri talks with novelist Yaa Gyasi about getting off social media, how acting is like a kid, and a “freaky” George Saunders.
Ayo Edebiri talks with novelist Yaa Gyasi about getting off social media, how acting is like a kid, and a “freaky” George Saunders.
Weeks away from casting her first vote in a presidential election, a young Black Harvard undergraduate student writes an essay that won’t be graded, contemplating what “hope” means to her.
The critically acclaimed and publicly scrutinized star of this summer’s West End production of ‘Romeo & Juliet introduces herself employing a familiar form; using the framework of a soliloquy, she questions the world around her.
The 2024 Model of the Year nominee and “face of” more campaigns than one can name sits down with her partner to discuss home, personhood, and going back to “self”.
In a celebration of Khadija Saye, a “promising” photographer and visual artist, we present her last collection of images, eight tintype photographs that make up a portion of her 2017 Venice Biennial Diaspora Pavillon entry. The collection entitled “Dwelling: In This Space We Breathe” is presented here with the intention to provoke memory, emotion, and resolve.
André 3000 is back. With a solo album none of us could have anticipated. Over email, on Zoom, and then in a small sun-lit studio near his home, André talks with Donovan X. Ramsey about where he’s been, his unexpected artistic evolution, and only doing what “feels good.”
In conversation, Marcus Cuffie, son of photographer, the late Steven Cuffie, reflects on his father’s work and the importance of photographing “the center”. Featuring a collection of images illustrating what life looks like at the center of a city, with intimate portraits of Baltimore’s women and children, shot in Baltimore between 1974 and 1986.
In his own words and works, oil painter, Thelonious Stokes, describes his path to painting and the purpose and meanings that drive him
In partnership with Nike Women, Alek Wek and a team of Black female creatives put forward a new perspective on beauty, sensuality, and softness.
Kendrick Lamar talks to Sarah Osei about Ghana, going silent and being more than the greatest.
London-based collage artist Jazz Grant takes us to Sri Lanka and reflects on a project she never intended to share