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US
Pardon Recipients Seek to Sell Trump on His Own Sentencing Law
The Republican front-runner has a history of making racist statements, but some advisers think highlighting his signature law could help…
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Books
Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief
“I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking,” the painter Kerry James Marshall wrote in 2018. “Material…
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Arts
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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Arts
Ballantine House Overhaul to ‘Wake It Up and Shake It Up’
The renovated Gilded Age mansion of beer makers in Newark is filled with surprises: a Black history from the 19th…
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Food
Race Cannot Be Used to Predict Heart Disease, Scientists Say
The American Heart Association will release a new clinical tool that removes race as a factor in predicting who will…
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News
The Squandered Potential of Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week having failed to make…
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Arts
Indianapolis Museum Leader Hired After Racism Outcry Leaves Her Role
Colette Pierce Burnette was appointed last year by Newfields, whose campus includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Arts
When a Seat in the Theater Means a Seat in the Salon
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most…
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Finance
A Black Woman’s Rise in Architecture Shows How Far Is Left to Go
They have worked for decades to make their way in a profession that remains overwhelmingly white and male, but there…
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World
A Landmark of Black Cinema, Restored for a New Age
The British director Horace Ové struggled to get his 1975 film, “Pressure,” made and released. Now, weeks after his death,…