The Cypher

What we're reading, watching, and discussing this week...

Happy Friday, fam! This is what we’re reading, watching, discussing, and listening to this week.

Read

Check out “Justice According to Letitia James.” She’s earned the wrath of Andrew Cuomo. Now She’s investigating Donald Trump. Can she beat the two meanest men in politics?

Nettrice Gaskins is a dope visual artist, scholar, educator, and STEAM practitioner. In “Remixing AI & the Visual Image: A Novel Approach to Portraiture,” she breaks down her artistic practice and style.

We love a good art story. Elizabeth Meader has been collecting Black art for 70 years. Check out this profile on schoolteacher turned art collector.

Listen

Friend of the CFC Tanisha C. Ford discusses her new book and the power of Black fashion and the brand Shein with NPR.

We’ve been following all the developments with Ukraine and Russia on The Daily.

Watch

Have y’all been watching The Gilded Age on HBO Max? While watching old New York fight with new New York is good shady fun, we are living for the storyline with Peggy Scott, a fictional character who is giving us a combination of Pauline Hopkins and Ida B. Wells. Historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Simon and Schuster, 2017) and She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman (Simon and Schuster, 2019), is co-executive producer and it shows! Read Dr. Dunbar’s take on the series and take a watch.