Tamara Best

Editor

Tamara Best is the former Assistant Managing Editor of The Daily Beast. Her writing focuses on the intersections of identity and culture within communities of color.

HEY, NEIGHBOR

Inside ‘Misty,’ the Play That Puts Gentrification on Trial

“The play isn’t saying ‘You’re good,’ ‘You’re bad’— it’s shedding light on what gentrification does to a place,” playwright Arinzé Kene says. “I don’t want anyone to feel judged.”

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BEAT IN TIME

This Classic Reggae Movie Has Been Remade for the Stage

The 1972 movie “The Harder They Come,” which follows the journey of Ivan, who hopes to become a music star and soon finds himself on the run from police, is now a piece of theater.

Tamara Best

SELF-REFLECTION

Black or White, No One Can Escape the Mirror in ‘Slave Play’

Jeremy O. Harris’ “Slave Play” shines a light on hard truths that both black and white America would rather ignore around privilege, race, and the necessity of communal healing.

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FRIGHTENING

A Face Cream Put One Woman Into a Coma—It Could Happen Again

A Sacramento woman is in a coma after using a face cream from Mexico. Public health officials can do almost nothing to prevent other contaminated cosmetics from hitting stores.

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