Rihanna To Be Awarded One Of The NAACP’s Top Honors

  This year’s recipient for the NAACP President’s Award is none other than Rihanna. The organization announced on Tuesday that the singer would be awarded the honor during the NAACP Image Award show, according to Pitchfork. The award, which is given “in recognition of special achievement and distinguished […]

How Ballerinas Of Color Are Changing The Palette Of Dance

    Ballet’s aristocratic origins and an early association with opera mean that it remains wedded to a Euro-classical ethos. Certain ideas about it still persist ― that only an expensive cultural education can unlock its meaning and that it belongs in gilded venues accessed only by the elite. […]