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Echo Brown, Young Adult Author and Performer, Dies at 39

A one-woman show that used her date with a white hipster to talk about life, race, love and sex, led…

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Horace Ové, Pioneering Black Filmmaker in Britain, Dies at 86

His feature-length film, “Pressure,” mapped the struggles of Black Britons in an era of unyielding racism. He was knighted in…

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Newsom to Name Emily’s List President as Feinstein Successor

Gov. Gavin Newsom will name Laphonza Butler to fill the vacancy left by the death of Dianne Feinstein.

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In a ‘City Too Busy to Hate,’ New Attention to an Overlooked Race Massacre

ACROSS THE COUNTRY In a ‘City Too Busy to Hate,’ New Attention to an Overlooked Race Massacre Researchers say that…

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Bill Pinkney, Globe-Circling Sailor Who Set a Racial Mark, Dies at 87

He was the first Black person to sail alone by way of the arduous southern route, rounding the perilous Cape…

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‘Big Brother’ Contestant Is Expelled for Using Racial Slur

“Well, I’m in trouble now,” Luke Valentine said after using a slur for Black people in a conversation on the…

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William H. Dilday Jr., First Black TV Station Manager in U.S., Dies at 85

Hired to run a troubled Mississippi affiliate of NBC, he turned it into a respected and highly profitable operation, with…

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DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida’s New Standards for Black History

In one benchmark, middle schoolers would learn that enslaved Americans developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”

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Where’s the Controversy in ‘Philip Guston Now’?

The show makes its final U.S. stop at the National Gallery without feared protests. But some caricatures in the artist’s…

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There Is No Separating the Black Dancer From the Dance

I am a ballet dancer and a Black man, in that order. I left the United States to train at…

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