Times
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Magazine
What Is Black Love Day?
On Feb. 13, 1993, Ayo Handy-Kendi, a community organizer and native of Washington, D.C., created the holiday to celebrate communal love and pride in being “unapologetically Black.”
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World
A Trump-Clinton Analogy That Could Give Biden Comfort
Democrats who aren’t fans of the president could come home when faced with a Trump presidency, just as Republicans returned to their party in the final days of the 2016 race.
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World
What Do We Owe Black Americans?
In my debut novel, a family retraces their lineage in order to be eligible for the nation’s first federal reparations program for Black Americans. When I was selling my novel in 2021, it was pitched to publishers as “speculative fiction, but only ...
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Arts
Meet Flagboy Giz, a Rapper Uniting New Orleans Cultural Traditions
The 37-year-old artist is a Black Masking Indian who sews his own colorful suits. His blending those practices with rap music has made him one of the city’s most in-demand performers.
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Arts
Twyla Tharp: ‘You Dig Down, You Settle in, You Don’t Stop’
“OK, is everybody’s gum ready?” It’s not a question most choreographers ask their dancers before a run-through of a work, but Twyla Tharp has always gone her own way. Her career — Tharp is on the cusp of her 60th year as a dance maker — has displayed ...
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World
U.S., U.N. and International Criminal Court Intensify Warnings Against Invading Rafah
The United States opposes an Israeli ground offensive into Rafah unless Israel provides for the safety of more than a million people now crammed into the city, a State Department spokesman said on Monday, adding to the Biden administration’s ...
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Arts
When the Voice You Hear Is Not the Actor You See
The playwright Lucas Hnath has been making magic with the sound of speech. Now he’s directing a play by Mona Pirnot, his wife, in which a computer speaks her words.
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Arts
The Big Pregame (Vegas’s Version)
Music blared as the Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. had a conversation across a barricade. Close by were Machine Gun Kelly, the platinum-blond musician, and his partner, the actor Megan Fox. Outside the 45,000-square-foot, strobe ...
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Food
Hot Pot Is for Everyone
Pick your proteins, assemble your vegetables and simmer away.
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World
15-Year-Old Is Arrested in Shooting of a Tourist in Times Square
The teen, Jesus Alejandro Rivas Figueroa, is accused of firing at a security guard and instead hitting a woman from Brazil.