Edition: U.S. / Global
The 3.20.16 Issue
Lyle Ashton Harris for The New York Times.
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Table of Contents
Feature

‘Shuffle Along’ and the Lost History of Black Performance in America

Minstrelsy. Blackface. Mugging. Out of this twisted past came one of the first successful all-black Broadway musicals. Now an ambitious revival is bringing it back.

Feature

How Aerial Surveillance Has Changed Policing — and Crime — in Los Angeles

Inside the city’s pioneering air-support division.

Feature

Should Parents of Children With Severe Disabilities Be Allowed to Stop Their Growth?

Caring for people with severe mental and physical limitations becomes vastly harder as they get older. Some parents believe medically stunting them is the answer — but is it ethical?

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Bill Walton’s Long, Strange Tale of N.B.A. Survival

A basketball legend looks back with surprising gratitude on a life plagued by physical agony.


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