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For Her Next Round, Toni Tipton-Martin Orders Up a Book of Cocktails

The author of “The Jemima Code” has distilled 200 years of African American drinking know-how into her new “Juke Joints,…

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Mellon Foundation Doubles Funding for U.S. Monuments, Pledging a Total $500 Million

The philanthropy will add to its ongoing initiative to tell diverse stories with new monuments in public spaces over the…

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How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets

The poets’ collective, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of…

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A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War

In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of…

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Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science

This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.

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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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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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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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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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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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