ARTS

Artistic depiction of social media influencer with graphics of chart showing a crashing stock

The decline of the influencer

Ashvini Giridaran February 6, 2022
The complex role the status occupies in our present society
Promotional poster of West Side Story movie

West Side Story bombed at the box office

Luca Carnegie February 6, 2022
What now?
Logo of Victoria Black Students Network

What then? What now?

Lashae L. Watson February 1, 2022
A message from the Events Director of BLVCK, Lashae L. Watson
Photo of woman with abstract flower in background

Thank you, bell hooks

Furqan Mohamed February 1, 2022
A reflection on the intellectual giant and the legacy she left behind
Front cover of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Celebrating Black authors

Makgofe M. Mathipa February 1, 2022
Brought to you by BLVCK
Illustration of a mother holding her daughter reading a spoken word poem into a microphone by reading from a phone

“My Mama Said” so “Sorry in Advance”

Imani King February 1, 2022
Poetry for the woman who taught me to be bright
Scrapbook-style graphic of characters in "She's Gotta Have It"

Artists rewrite history

Kalliopé Anvar McCall February 1, 2022
What Spike Lee gets right and wrong in his show, She's Gotta Have It
Illustration with a girl reading a book next to a stack of books, a cup of tea, and a cat

Book it to the library

Stefania Kuczynski January 19, 2022
I read 182 books last year and I have some opinions for your 2022 reading
Illustration of people wearing masks sitting in a movie theatre

Illness and escape: blockbuster release during Omicron

Sam Rosati Martin January 19, 2022
Ticket sales for a superhero movie surged alongside the emergent variant
Artistic depiction of three people holding shut a door with a fire blazing in the room behind it and the number 2021 pressed against the window

2021 (The Strand’s Version)

The Strand Staff January 19, 2022
The Strand reflects on a bittersweet year