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World
Tyre Nichols Beating Opens a Complex Conversation on Race and Policing
The five officers charged with the murder of the young Black man are also Black, complicating the anguish and efforts…
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News
Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame
The spectacle of a televised countdown to the showing of the video in which Tyre Nichols was savagely beaten by…
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News
The Beleaguered Queen of New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — “As a mayor, you should not be twerking. You should be working.” That’s what Belden “Noonie Man”…
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Arts
Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic
BLACK AND FEMALE: Essays, by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre has been defined by her…
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News
The Black Musical That May Have Inspired Gershwin
I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret.…
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News
Some Black Homeowners Could Have a Clear Way to Challenge Racist Appraisals
Under a new proposal, a homeowner with a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration would have uniform steps to…
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News
‘Hood Century’: How One Man Is Redefining Midcentury Modern Architecture
In 1928, a Black congregation in Cincinnati bought a German Gothic brick structure originally built in 1865 as a synagogue.…
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Style
The Fashion Sale of the Century
André Leon Talley amassed piles of Louis Vuitton, Versace, Chanel and Fendi. Now it’s all about to go up for…
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News
The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned
In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr.…
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Arts
When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough
In three Broadway plays this season, a quest for financial stability can’t undo the trauma of the past or dismantle…