In his work, he often returned to Manzanar, the camp in which he and his family, along with thousands of other people of Japanese descent, were interned during World War II.
Category: Race and Ethnicity
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‘Sinners,’ ‘One Battle After Another’ and the Art of Racial Solidarity
Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.
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I Made an Offensive Joke. But So Did Everyone Else! Why Did I Get Fired?
Plus, should you endure a stultifying work life to enable a happy personal life?
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Moment I Remember Most’
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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I Feel Like a Fish Out of Water After Relocating for My Wife
Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who moved to the South to satisfy his partner and now wants to find his way home.
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Roberta Alexander, Widely Acclaimed Soprano, Dies at 76
An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when being considered for a wide variety of opera roles.
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Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.
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How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image
Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.
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Lisa Cook, Who Broke Ground at the Fed, Faces Attack by Trump
The first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve board, Ms. Cook has long been a pathbreaker in a field dominated by white men.
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The Complexities of Portraying the Black Elite, From ‘The Gilded Age’ to Ralph Lauren
Recent portrayals of the Black elite have shown the complexities that can come with representing class.
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Trump Questions Discrimination Claims, Even One His First Administration Brought
The case against a Chicago mortgage lender has become a Rorschach test for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, epitomizing how the left and the right feel about the agency.
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Southwest Passenger Says She Was Ejected From Flight Based on Her Race
On a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., last November, the passenger said she was the only Black person seated in an exit row when she was asked to leave.