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Travel
‘No Beginners Allowed’: A Midwestern Paradise for Skiers Who Dare
On Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula: bottomless powder and nostalgic chairlifts that deliver expert skiers and snowboarders to an ungroomed landscape…
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Books
Pushing for Recognition Took Billy Dee Williams to the Stratosphere
His charming memoir “What Have We Here?” traces the path from a Harlem childhood to “Star Wars,” while lamenting the…
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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…
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News
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…
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News
Full Employment Is Good for Society
On the day in 1968 when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, he was in Memphis to…
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News
The Miseducation of Nikki Haley
After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month,…
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US
Biden to Appeal to Black Voters in Campaign Trip to Charleston, S.C.
The president will visit Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the site of one of the most horrific hate crimes of…
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News
Vinie Burrows, Acclaimed Actress Who Became an Activist, Dies at 99
She got her start on Broadway at 15. But after finding a dearth of roles for Black women, she ultimately…
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News
June Jackson Christmas, Pioneering Psychiatrist, Dies at 99
Dr. Christmas overcame race and gender barriers to run New York’s mental health agency under three mayors in the 1970s.
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News
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Trailblazer in Congress and Beyond, Dies at 88
The Texas Democrat broke barriers in nursing and the Texas legislature, and then served 15 terms in Congress.