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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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News
The Tennis Podcast that Champions, and Hosts, Black Pros
Black Spin Global found an audience with its cheeky coverage of the growing number of ranked Black tennis players. It…
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Magazine
The Small, Black-Owned Label Taking on the Big Brands in the Style Olympics
Actively Black, the company that will be dressing Team Nigeria, has gold-medal-worthy ambitions.
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News
‘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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US
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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World
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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News
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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Magazine
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…