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Dafydd Jones on Photographing New York Society in the ’80s and ’90s

In the 1980s and ’90s, Dafydd Jones’s party shots captured Manhattan’s rich and powerful.

By Daniel Penny

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Barbara Joans, Anthropologist Who Studied Biker Culture, Dies at 89

In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.

By Alex Williams

Blay-Miezah, John Ackah Books and Literature Content Type: Service Gyasi, Yaa His Only Wife (Book) Homegoing (Book) literaryguides Nightbloom (Book) Poetry and Poets Soyinka, Wole University of Ghana Writing and Writers

Read Your Way Through Accra

Bus stations. Traffic stops. Beaches. There’s no telling where you’ll find the next story in Accra, Ghana’s capital. Peace Adzo Medie shares some of her favorites.

By Peace Adzo Medie

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How the Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt Became a Chronicler of Black Jazz History

Inspired by the drummer Arthur Taylor’s “Notes and Tones” collection of interviews with fellow musicians, Pelt started his own book series, “Griot.”

By Hank Shteamer