Black People – Page 74

Two Chefs on Keeping Alive, and Redefining, Soul Food

At their restaurants in New York and Chicago, Shenarri Freeman and Erick Williams are celebrating the cuisine in their own ways.

By Korsha Wilson

Black People Deaths (Obituaries) Gail Christian Los Angeles (Calif) NBC News News and News Media Public Broadcasting Service Television

Gail Christian, Trailblazing News Correspondent, Dies at 83

An on-air career seemed unlikely for a Black woman in the 1970s. It didn’t help that she had been imprisoned for armed robbery. But she broke barriers.

By Alex Williams

Black People Black People Will Swim Deaths (Obituaries) New York City Nu-Finmen Swimming Swimming Trotman, Robert Urban Areas USA Swimming

Robert Trotman, 82, Dies; Opened Swimming Lanes to Minority Children

The club he started as a coach has helped young Black and Hispanic youths learn to swim and compete in the sport in urban areas not known as oases for it.

By Richard Sandomir

Architecture Art Black People Central Park (Manhattan, NY) Halsey, Lauren (Artist) Los Angeles (Calif) Metropolitan Museum of Art Monuments and Memorials (Structures) Museums Parliament-Funkadelic

Pharaonic Funkatizing at the Met Roof Garden

Lauren Halsey built a personal monument drawing on sources from ancient Egypt to George Clinton to threatened neighborhoods of South Central Los Angeles.

By Holland Cotter