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Viola Davis is the striking new face of Vanity Fair, making history as the first cover star shot by a black photographer, Dario Calmese.

In the interview for the magazine, Davis talks about her career, facing racism and showing up for the Black Lives Matter movement.

She says: “I feel like my entire life has been a protest. My production company is my protest. Me not wearing...

Actor Yara Shahidi has penned a powerful essay about being a black and Iranian woman born in the year 2000.

“I was born into a perceived ‘post-racial’ world with smartphones – undermined by the fact that our societal fates are predetermined based on our ethnicities – and the same technologies that have connected us also surveille our Black and Brown communities,” she wrote for Porter...