Toni Cade Bambara’s novel on healing and activism is prescient for the present moment — Before all this started — the staying indoors and the constant cleaning and the calls about who got tested, who had it, who passed and was suddenly gone — I was afraid to go to the doctor. One of my earliest memories is running through a clinic’s waiting room, while…

We have been building and archiving our narratives, and this list of 100 picks gives flowers to our voices

When I observed a Black dancer performing the birth of Christ onstage, I thought of the overlooked and radical part of this biblical story — Growing up, we knew it was Christmas when we made it to Black Nativity. Boston has been running productions of Black Nativity every December for as long as I’ve been alive. At some point in November or December, my mother would pay for seats at a show—a wasted expense since…

“It’s a shock, whenever you leave the U.S., to realize how much other people understand that history matters” —