Macy’s Plans to Invest Millions to Fund Minority-Owned Businesses
The department store chain is investing $30 million over five years to support entrepreneurs from underrepresented groups in the retail industry.
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A Hamptons Property Fight Over a Black Whaler’s Homestead
Property tussles in the moneyed enclaves of Long Island are nothing new, but the battle to preserve the homestead of Pyrrhus Concer raises questions of whose history gets to be honored.
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Portraits of Serena and Venus Williams, Ava DuVernay Coming to the Smithsonian
Serena and Venus Williams and Ava DuVernay, and the artists who portrayed them, talk about their choices, which will be on view at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Bursting Into Dance: Gentlemen, Assume the Superhero Stance!
“Spirited,” a revisionist “Christmas Carol,” leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha Nichols.