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Awards for Green Book and The New Negro merely assuage white guilt – these are not great works of art | Michael Henry Adams

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Admin

The best picture Oscar and the Pulitzer for biography have been bestowed on problematic and inferior works on race

Art highlighting the marginalized, blacks, gays and others, is more fashionable than ever. For the gatekeepers of culture, however, it is not authenticity but stories that celebrate a superficial idea of progressiveness which exert the greatest appeal. Narratives exhibiting how “woke” we are resonate most. As long as a work captures how accepting whites are of blacks, how understanding straights are when encountering queerness, success is assured.

Michelle Obama on meeting the Queen and how to cope in difficult political times – video

Posted on April 15, 2019 by Admin

The former first lady was greeted on stage at the O2 in London on Sunday night by tears, screams and a standing ovation. Obama was at the 20,000-capacity arena to promote her book, Becoming, which charts her journey from Chicago to the White House. The memoir has sold more than 10m copies worldwide since it was published in November. Her appearance at the event followed a similar one at the capital's Southbank Centre in December, which sold out within minutes. The Becoming tour has taken Obama to Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Oslo and Stockholm, as well as a string of events across the US and Canada.

Michelle Obama gets rock-star reception at O2