How music convinced a religious skeptic to rethink faith.
Category: Race and Ethnicity
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The D.E.I. Industry, Scorned by the White House, Turns to ‘Safer’ Topics
To avoid government scrutiny, companies are asking for fewer trainings focused on race and gender and more on neurodivergence and generational differences.
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United Faces Race Discrimination Lawsuit After Barring Passengers
Two Asian American women were mistaken for each other. One was accused of physically assaulting a flight attendant, but both were denied boarding, a lawsuit claims.
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Dressing Up for a Day of Black Joy at the Pinkster Stroll
The Pinkster Stroll is not your average New York fashion show.
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South Africa Sets the Stage for Starlink Approval
A proposed regulatory change would allow Elon Musk’s satellite company and others like it to get a license without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.
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Rhiannon Giddens Reflects on Biscuits and Banjos Festival
A new North Carolina festival founded by the musician Rhiannon Giddens highlighted Black string music and flaky treats.
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Clarence O. Smith, a Founder of Essence Magazine, Is Dead at 92
As president, he helped persuade companies like Estée Lauder and Ford to advertise in the pages of the first mass-circulation magazine directed at Black women.
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Inside the Most Politically Charged Met Gala in Years
The party and its related exhibition, about Black male style, land in a moment when anything to do with race and diversity is under added scrutiny.
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‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ at the Met Explores the History of Black Dandyism
The guest curator of a new Met exhibition on Black style offers an annotated early look at a Dapper Dan jacket, André Leon Talley’s luggage and more.
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Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’
The Pulitzer Prize-winning opera features Donald J. Trump, whose 1989 full-page newspaper ad sought to demonize the young men wrongly accused of rape.
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Why Some of Japan’s Most Exciting Cultural Figures Are of Korean Descent
The artists, musicians and writers pushing past decades of historical erasure.