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Joe Biden, in the Goodest Bunker Ever
When I saw the Michael Shear story in The Times on July 4, recounting how President Biden had stumbled talking…
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‘White Chicks’ at 20: Comedy Beyond the Pale
The Wayans brothers’ subversive comedy is smarter than you remember.
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Jamaal Bowman’s Political Malpractice
On Tuesday, voters in New York’s 16th Congressional District will cast ballots in the most expensive House primary race in…
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Nathan Hare, 91, Dies; Founded the First Black Studies Program
Seeking to bring the ideas of Black power into the classroom — and coining the term “ethnic studies” — he…
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Major League Baseball Came to Birmingham. Then Willie Mays Died.
Baseball hopes a celebration of its past in the home of one of its legends will attract more African American…
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More Black and Latino Students Admitted to New York’s Elite High Schools
The percentage of Black and Latino students in the eight schools increased to 12 percent, the highest since 2013, but…
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Audra McDonald Is Returning to Broadway! There’s Just One Catch.
The recent announcement that Audra McDonald will be starring as Mama Rose in “Gypsy” has thrilled Broadway fans. I’m as…
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The Disturbing Truth About Hair Relaxers
The phone rang incessantly in Dr. Tamarra James-Todd’s office at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “I’m sorry,” she…
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She Moved Her Family to a Black Utopia. Then Things Got Weird.
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is…
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Behind the Republican Effort to Win Over Black Men
The party is trying to make inroads with Black voters, a key demographic for Democrats, which could swing the 2024…