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Violent History Echoes in the Killing of Tyre Nichols

MEMPHIS — On April 3, 1968, shortly before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would deliver what turned out…

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Tyre Nichols Beating Opens a Complex Conversation on Race and Policing

The five officers charged with the murder of the young Black man are also Black, complicating the anguish and efforts…

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Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame

The spectacle of a televised countdown to the showing of the video in which Tyre Nichols was savagely beaten by…

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The Beleaguered Queen of New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS — “As a mayor, you should not be twerking. You should be working.” That’s what Belden “Noonie Man”…

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Tsitsi Dangarembga Turns From Fiction to Polemic

BLACK AND FEMALE: Essays, by Tsitsi Dangarembga The Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga’s oeuvre has been defined by her…

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The Black Musical That May Have Inspired Gershwin

I have, over the transom, received the paperback edition of a book that escaped me last year, to my regret.…

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Some Black Homeowners Could Have a Clear Way to Challenge Racist Appraisals

Under a new proposal, a homeowner with a mortgage insured by the Federal Housing Administration would have uniform steps to…

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‘Hood Century’: How One Man Is Redefining Midcentury Modern Architecture

In 1928, a Black congregation in Cincinnati bought a German Gothic brick structure originally built in 1865 as a synagogue.…

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The Fashion Sale of the Century

André Leon Talley amassed piles of Louis Vuitton, Versace, Chanel and Fendi. Now it’s all about to go up for…

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The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned

In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr.…

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