Hannah Giorgis
Along with Michelle Duster, Ida B. Wells’s great-granddaughter, Hannah recently co-wrote Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells. Before joining The Atlantic in 2018, she was the special projects editor at The Ringer. At The Atlantic, she primarily covers culture.
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Frank Dorrey The Homepage of the Black Internet
Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun
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Amazon Prime A Rom-Com You Might Have Written
The Idea of You is a modern spin on a Hollywood staple: someone famous falling for someone who’s not.
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Will Heath / NBC A Saturday Night Live Monologue That Felt More Like Prayer
Ramy Youssef brought a politics of care to his first time hosting the show.
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© 2024 LaToya Ruby Frazier, courtesy of the … Family Ties
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s intimate, intergenerational portraits
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Eric McCandless / Disney Even Oprah Doesn’t Know How to Talk About Weight Loss Now
Like much of America, the media mogul is feeling the cultural impact of the Ozempic era.
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Fine Art Images / Heritage / Getty Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work?
Two recent books dig into the crisis of modern love—and how we might forge more meaningful connections.
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Gilles Mingasson / Disney Why That Big Abbott Elementary Cameo Made So Much Sense
As the show has gotten more popular, it hasn’t abandoned its distinct regional humor.
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Paramount Pictures The Missing Piece of the Bob Marley Biopic
A new film about the reggae legend sanitizes his commitment to social justice—and loses what made him so magnetic.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty The Raw Talent in Usher’s Halftime Show
Roller skates and all, the R&B veteran’s performance underscored the value of showmanship.
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Christopher Polk / Variety / Getty The Most Truthful Moment of the Emmys
A rare appearance by the actor Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2021, brought heart and humor to the ceremony’s celebration of TV history.
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Jojo Whilden / Paramount A Musical Reboot That Can’t Cross the Generational Gap
The reboot of the classic teen comedy Mean Girls sands off its source material’s edges, to mixed results.
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MGM American Fiction Is More Than a Racial Satire
The film dramatizes the quotidian absurdities that many Black writers face during their career.
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Dusty Deen for The Atlantic The 15 Best TV Shows of 2023
The year’s most essential series
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Ira Wyman / Sygma / Getty / HBO The Final Word on a Notorious Killing
Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage & Reckoning, a new docuseries about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart, revisits the case with an eye toward Boston’s stark racial divisions.
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Bob Riha Jr / Getty Norman Lear’s Many American Families
The legendary TV producer transformed the medium by listening to creators whose lives differed greatly from his own.
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Mike Wilson / IFC Films Who’s Afraid of Women’s Pleasure?
A new documentary about the pioneering sex researcher Shere Hite points to the barriers that women face when writing candidly about intimacy and power.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Brian Bowen Smith … The Unexpected Power of Second-Chance Romance
Pop culture of late, such as The Golden Bachelor, has been curious—and insightful—about love after 50 in a way that feels new and honest.
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James Van Evers / Hulu A Show About the Secrets Parents Keep From Their Children
Hulu’s Black Cake explores how marriage, migration, and motherhood can shift one’s sense of self.
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Illustration by Ngadi Smart Six Books That Will Scare You—And Make You Think
Black writers have long used science fiction, fantasy, and horror to dramatize the terrors of racism or to tell frightening tales.
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NBC Universal Pete Davidson Might Be the Comedic Hero We Need Now. No, Really.
The SNL alum returned to host the show’s much-anticipated return—and was somehow the perfect choice for it.
