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World
In South Carolina, Democrats See a Test of Biden’s Appeal to Black Voters
The president’s campaign is putting money and staff into South Carolina ahead of its primary in an effort to energize…
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News
Why Claudine Gay Should Go
Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, should resign. I don’t love thinking so and hoped we would not reach this tipping point…
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Arts
Now, Black Figures Have a Name, a Frame and a Show
A vital American Folk Art Museum show reckons with centuries of erasure by uncovering historical records of the unnamed Black…
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World
Excerpts From Dr. Claudine Gay’s Work
Here are five examples of work by President Claudine Gay of Harvard that have been spotlighted by critics who have…
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Arts
‘The Color Purple’ Review: Still Here
There’s a lot to like about this musical film version of Alice Walker’s novel, but the story remains slippery to…
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Arts
Listen to Ntozake Shange Like You’ve Never Heard Her Before
A new volume of the Black feminist’s previously unpublished writing is read in audiobook form by a full cast of…
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Arts
‘American Fiction’ Review: The Pen Is Mighty, the Pressures Mightier
The first film from the director Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright as an author who becomes a pseudonymous success writing…
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World
As Biden Struggles With Black Men, Allies Gather at White House
Aides of the president met with influential Black male Democrats to discuss how to shore up his standing with a…
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Arts
Norman Lear Reshaped How America Saw Black Families
“Good Times,” “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son” brought a wave of Black characters to TV, even as the shows…
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Health
For Her Next Round, Toni Tipton-Martin Orders Up a Book of Cocktails
The author of “The Jemima Code” has distilled 200 years of African American drinking know-how into her new “Juke Joints,…