Yinka Shonibare MBE’s career retrospective at the Smithsonian just goes to show how strange things get when the empire strikes black. The (Not So) New World Order by Natalie Hopkinson How “explicit” could the images be? Queen Elizabeth II...

Presented at the Annual American Studies Association Meeting in Washington, DC and the The Fifth African-American Literature Symposium at North Carolina Central University. *** A (Nearly) Flawless Masculinity?: Barack Obama by Mark Anthony Neal In...

special to NewBlackMan Stephane Dunn “Baad Bitches” and Sassy Supermamas: Black Power Action Films Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Review by Kinohi Nishikawa In the early 1970s, blaxploitation films popularized images...

Twenty-five years after his phenomenal rookie season, Dwight Gooden takes aim at his demons by Wayne Coffey DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER Saturday, November 14th 2009, 6:45 PM Nobody hangs up Ks for Dwight Gooden anymore. A mural of him - in mid-windup -...

Real Talk from Uncle Charlie: “Get a Prostate Exam” by Mark Anthony Neal In the late 1970s and 1980s, Charlie Wilson, lead singer of the Gap Band was one of the most recognizable voices in R&B. Wilson’s influence was easily witnessed in the...