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“Sinners” a 2025 film written, produced, and directed by Ryan Coogler unfolds in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta during t...
23/03/2026

“Sinners” a 2025 film written, produced, and directed by Ryan Coogler unfolds in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era. It stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as identical twin brothers who return to their hometown, only to confront a terrifying supernatural evil.

The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton in his film debut, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.

The film received widespread acclaim and earned a record sixteen nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, ultimately winning four Oscars.

Credit:
Film stills from “Sinners,” photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

“Repeated portrayals have created a perception that q***rness is only an urban ‘phenomenon.’ I wanted to craft a story f...
20/03/2026

“Repeated portrayals have created a perception that q***rness is only an urban ‘phenomenon.’ I wanted to craft a story from my own city and rural experiences and represent rarely portrayed lower-class and rural q***r characters and their existence with honesty.” — Rohan Parashuram Kanawade

“Sabar Bonda” (Marathi for “Cactus Pears” ) marks the feature directorial debut of writer-director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade . The film explores what it means to be q***r in rural India amid traditional familial and societal pressures. It unfolds a tender romance between two men while showcasing the support and powerful encouragement of a mother-son relationship in adult life.

Rohan Kanawade is a self-made filmmaker with a background in interior design. His first feature “Cactus Pears” had its world premiere at the World Cinema Competition of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize. It was the first Marathi-language film to premiere at the festival.

Credit:
1: Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, writer-director of “Sabar Bonda | photo by Sushant Murkar
2 & 3: Film stills, Sabar Bonda (dir. Rohan Parashuram Kanawade)

“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapon against what I hated most about the universe” — Gordon Parks, 1...
18/03/2026

“I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapon against what I hated most about the universe” — Gordon Parks, 1967

“Gordon Parks: We Shall Not Be Moved” at Alison Jacques, London , in partnership with The Gordon Parks Foundation , is on view until 11 April 2026. This solo exhibition features pioneering American artist Gordon Parks, one of the most groundbreaking figures in twentieth-century photography.

His photographs chronicled the daily lives, struggles, and triumphs of Black Americans, insisting that their stories be seen and remembered. The images in the exhibition represent the struggle, resilience, and constant striving of Black Americans, spanning 25 years of Parks’ practice (1942–1967) and focus on Gordon Parks as a humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice.

Curated by Bryan Stevenson of and , the exhibition highlights Parks’ socially conscious work and is presented on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation .

Credits:
1: Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
2: Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1963
3: Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
4: Drinking Fountains, Mobile, Alabama, 1956
5: Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956

From a q***r Muslim woman and artist, “All the Parts We Exile” is a generous and heartfelt memoir tracing Roza Nozari’s ...
16/03/2026

From a q***r Muslim woman and artist, “All the Parts We Exile” is a generous and heartfelt memoir tracing Roza Nozari’s journey toward radical self-acceptance and exile from her ancestral home.

Born in Canada to Iranian émigré parents, Roza grew up craving belonging through her mother’s cuisine and homeland stories. A family visit felt magical yet concealed deeper truths. Feminist ideas later sparked revelations about her mother’s revolutionary past. Roza weaves their lives together, exploring her q***r identity, q***r community, and the real reasons her family left Iran.

Roza Nozari is a writer, artist, and therapist. Her work weaves together writing and visual art to share stories of wounding, healing, and community. She is the illustrator of three children’s books: “Little People,” “Big Dreams’ Mindy Kaling, “ “Fluffy and the Stars,” and “The Anti-Racist Kitchen.” Her debut book “All the Parts We Exile” won the 2025 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers.

Firelei Báez at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago features significant examples of the artist’s drawings, paintings, ...
13/03/2026

Firelei Báez at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago features significant examples of the artist’s drawings, paintings, and installations made over the last two decades, on view until May 31, 2026.

Báez creates fictional worlds that explore the legacies of colonial rule across the Americas and the African diaspora, in the Caribbean, and beyond.

Drawing on folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and mythology, she often works on top of visual references from the past, such as colonial maps and architectural plans, to challenge our understanding of acknowledged power, suggest alternative histories, and unsettle the often-fixed categories of race, gender, and nationality. Her works are at once fantastical, multilayered, and immersive, inviting viewers into her mythological narratives of struggle and resistance.

Credit
2&4: © Firelei Báez. Photo: Oriol Tarridas.
3: © Firelei Báez. Photo: Jackie Furtado.

The exhibition “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985” at Getty Center , Los Angeles, on view until June 14...
11/03/2026

The exhibition “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985” at Getty Center , Los Angeles, on view until June 14 features an incredible range of artists and activist, from studio and street photographers to graphic designers and community organisers who used photography as a tool for social change.

Amid the turbulent decades of the mid-20th century, African American and Afro-Atlantic diaspora artists sought to celebrate Black culture and advance the struggle for civil rights. Photographic images contributed in myriad ways to the lively exchange of pan-African ideas that propelled the Black Arts Movement.

Credit
1: Genie 1971. © Estate of Ray Francis

2: Ethel Sharrieff in Chicago 1963, Gordon Parks. © Gordon Parks Foundation

3: Protest Car, Los Angeles 1962. © Harry Adams.


The film Sugar Island , directed by Johanné Gómez Terrero , follows Dominican-Haitian teenager Makenya in a sugarcane-su...
09/03/2026

The film Sugar Island , directed by Johanné Gómez Terrero , follows Dominican-Haitian teenager Makenya in a sugarcane-surrounded Batey community. An unwanted pregnancy propels her into adulthood while her mother tends spiritual mysteries and her grandfather battles for pension rights. As mechanisation threatens their uncompensated displacement, a guiding serpent helps Makenya embrace her earthly power and multi-dimensional awareness to navigate realms of the impossible.

Director Johanné Gómez Terrero is an Afro-diasporic artist who positions her work within a Caribbean and decolonial framework. Her interests and studies encompass complex thinking, anti-racist struggle, and marronage cinema.

Chicago-based artist Shani Crowe’s solo exhibition “Red, Black, & Green” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora...
06/03/2026

Chicago-based artist Shani Crowe’s solo exhibition “Red, Black, & Green” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn pays tribute to the Pan-African flag. On view until 29 March 2026.

She widens the aperture of the tri-coloured symbol of African diasporan identity and liberation. Using textured hair and ornaments as central modalities, while featuring a collection of photographic portraiture, yarn tapestry, beading, and performance, this exhibition transforms Black radical imagination into an inclusive affirmation for the collective beyond its traditional conservative centre.

Shani Crowe’s work centres on cultural coiffure, adornment and beauty ritual, as they relate to the diasporic African, and how these practices function as tools to foster connectivity. She is most known for creating intricate corn-rowed hairstyles, then capturing them as large photographic portraits.

Credit
Slide 1: SIS FLAG, Shani Crowe, 2022
Slide 3: RBGoals, Shani Crowe 2022

“Black in Blues: How a Color Tell the Story of My People” by Imani Perry offers a deeply moving reflection on the profo...
04/03/2026

“Black in Blues: How a Color Tell the Story of My People” by Imani Perry offers a deeply moving reflection on the profound role of blue within Black history and culture.

It’s a thoughtful meditation on the connections between colour, heritage, and identity particularly the enduring bond between Blackness and the shade of blue.

The book explores blues music as an essential element of Black sensibility, drawing on figures such as Miles Davis and Nina Simone to illuminate the “blue note” of resilience laced with sorrow. It also weaves in powerful literary works including Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Amiri Baraka’s “ Blues People”, to reveal the rich, longstanding ties between Black identity and this evocative colour.

Imani Perry is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer giving fresh context to African American social conditions and experiences along dimensions of race, gender, and politics.

Cover art by Titus Kaphar

“Present,” a group exhibition at Tiwani Contemporary until 21 March 2026, features works by Bunmi Agusto , Carla Gueye ...
02/03/2026

“Present,” a group exhibition at Tiwani Contemporary until 21 March 2026, features works by Bunmi Agusto , Carla Gueye , Márcia Falcão , Miranda Forrester , Ugonna Hosten , and Sikelela Owen , alongside an In Focus solo presentation with selected works on paper by Virginia Chihota .

Across the exhibitions, the artists use figurative imagery to frame intimate and collective stories, mapping experiences of belonging, displacement, intimacy, and resistance. Figuration becomes a powerful tool for navigating inner and collective worlds. Through personal mythologies, spiritual archetypes, and embodied histories, new and recent works reveal how visual storytelling shapes identity, negotiates belonging, and reimagines the self in relation to others.

Image credit
1: Miranda Forrester, The invitation 2025
2: Ugonna Hosten, Melodies for the journey 2025
3: Virginia Chihota, Miganhu yodimbuka (Boundary lines have started breaking), 2022


The book “The World of Black Film” by writer, broadcaster, film programmer, and ’s curatorial director Ashley Clark is ...
02/03/2026

The book “The World of Black Film” by writer, broadcaster, film programmer, and ’s curatorial director Ashley Clark is an entertaining, informed, and thought-provoking survey of important and influential Black films from around the globe.

Ashley writes about BLACK GIRL, MOONLIGHT, SAMBIZANGA, COMPENSATION, FAYA DAYI, THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION, MUNA MOTO, and many more. This book takes readers on an exciting journey through an eclectic mix of classics and hidden gems spanning more than 100 years and 30 countries.

The book is endorsed by Spike Lee and with a foreword from John Akomfrah of

Image credit:
1: Alex Hibbert (left) and Mahershala Ali in the film Moonlight (2016), directed by Barry Jenkins .
2-5: Ashley Clark: The World of Black Film; design by Alexander Boxill (Copyright © Laurence King, 2026)

Chicago-based artist Shani Crowe’s solo exhibition “Red, Black, & Green” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora...
27/02/2026

Chicago-based artist Shani Crowe’s solo exhibition “Red, Black, & Green” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn pays tribute to the Pan-African flag. On view until 29 March 2026.

She widens the aperture of the tri-coloured symbol of African diasporan identity and liberation. Using textured hair and ornaments as central modalities, while featuring a collection of photographic portraiture, yarn tapestry, beading, and performance, this exhibition transforms Black radical imagination into an inclusive affirmation for the collective beyond its traditional conservative centre.

Shani Crowe’s work centres on cultural coiffure, adornment and beauty ritual, as they relate to the diasporic African, and how these practices function as tools to foster connectivity. She is most known for creating intricate corn-rowed hairstyles, then capturing them as large photographic portraits.

Credit
Slide 2: SIS FLAG, Shani Crowe, 2022

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