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The Most Radical and Rebellious Choice You Can Make Is to Be Optimistic
Optimism is radical. It is the hard choice, the brave choice....
The Story Behind the Painting on TIME’s Optimists Cover
For the best part of a decade, South African artist Nelson...
Hollywood’s New Black Renaissance Is Thriving. But the Industry Still Has Work to Do
What makes me optimistic today are the people trying to rip...
When I Need Hope, I Look to the History of Black Brilliance
“A voice like yours is heard once in a hundred years,”...
‘You Can’t Just Stop.’ Hollywood Legend Cicely Tyson on Why She’ll Never Retire
Forty-five years after Cicely Tyson received an Academy Award nomination for...
Read the Poem ‘Navel’ by Robin Coste Lewis
We crawled out of her navel one by one, then waited...
Art Doesn’t Just Imitate Life. It Infuses It With a Radical Kind of Hope
“Every poet is an optimist,” James Baldwin told a Guardian reporter...
A Body Has Been Recovered From the Wreckage of Emiliano Sala’s Plane
Authorities have recovered a body from the wreckage of a plane...
‘This System Humiliates Me.’ Refugee Author Behrouz Boochani Documents the Plight of Offshore Detention
The day Behrouz Boochani arrived on the South Pacific island where...
Global Suicides Have Declined by a Third Since 1990, a Study Finds
Suicides around the world have decreased by about a third in...
Allegations Mount Against Former Costa Rican President Óscar Arias
Sexual misconduct allegations mounted Wednesday against former Costa Rican president and...