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The streaming service highlights some of the finest movies starring, and often directed by, Black artists.
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The streaming service highlights some of the finest movies starring, and often directed by, Black artists.
By Jason Bailey
Try this short quiz about the vibrant cultural movement that came together a century ago — and continues to be influential.
By J. D. Biersdorfer
The retreat by the police coincided with a surge in reckless driving and a rise in road fatalities.
By Emily Badger and Ben Blatt
Native American tribes say the casinos are part of their right to self-determination. But state officials fear they could siphon revenues from the Oregon Lottery.
By David W. Chen and Jordan Gale
A man fled the country to escape political violence and seek asylum in the United States. He has made some inroads in New York financially, but he misses the family he left behind.
By Danielle McLean
Two of the men met through a neo-Nazi online forum and recruited other people to join their scheme, which was rooted in white supremacist ideology, prosecutors said.
By Sara Ruberg
Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she is not widely known as Asian American, reflecting the complexity of the identity.
By Amy Qin
Hispanic leaders and civil-rights groups are backing the vice president, despite their clashes with the Biden administration on border policy.
By Jazmine Ulloa
Michael February, a boundary-breaking surfer and the first Black South African on the World Surf League Championship Tour, embarks on a transformative journey.
By Sandra Winther and Michael February
Some conservatives have a grim proposal to make undocumented immigrants leave: Exclude their children from schools.
By Emily Bazelon
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
By Richard Sandomir
The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.
By Zachary Small
When it comes to people of mixed racial origin, our assumptions are sometimes strangely at odds with our ideals.
By John McWhorter
New research shows that the Black-white opportunity gap closed by about 30 percent for people born poor. It's also harder for poor white people to climb into the middle class.
By German Lopez and Ashley Wu
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Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”
By Holland Cotter
MAGA won’t be content to beat the vice president. It’ll try to destroy her.
By Charles M. Blow
He was a threat as a halfback, receiver and returner for the Dallas Texans, the team that became the Kansas City Chiefs. But he still had to deal with racism.
By Richard Sandomir
Her speech was a clear effort to make the election a referendum on the former president.
By Nicholas Nehamas and Simon J. Levien
The mayor of Nashville, Freddie O’Connell, asked the police to investigate three bombings after a book said that the attacks were tied to racist terrorism.
By Amanda Holpuch
In a new memoir, Fred C. Trump III claims his uncle, Donald J. Trump, made cruel and racist comments.
By Shawn McCreesh
She was, she said, unable to cook a basic meal into her mid-20s. But she went on to a successful career as a restaurateur and an authority on Asian cuisine.
By Alex Williams
A united “Divine Nine” could be a formidable political advantage as the vice president, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, looks to shore up the Democratic base.
By Maya King
In interviews around the country, Black voters voiced enthusiasm for the reshaped campaign. They also worried about how a polarized country would see it.
By Jeremy W. Peters, Audra D. S. Burch and Clyde McGrady
Ahogado por la visibilidad de su nueva contendiente, Donald Trump podría atacar a la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris con la retórica brutal y personal que ha usado antes contra rivales y críticas mujeres.
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
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After years planning to face President Biden, Donald J. Trump and his team will be campaigning against Kamala Harris. He has attacked female rivals and critics in brutal and personal terms.
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
The tension from tight box braids, ponytails and buns can cause pain and lead to hair loss, experts said.
By Katie Mogg
El expresidente encabeza una campaña agresiva —y algunos sostienen que ofensiva— con estética hip-hop y rap para llegar a los jóvenes votantes negros y latinos.
By Jennifer Medina
Justice Erin P. Gall of upstate New York engaged in a “racially offensive, profane” diatribe after people crashed a large party she was attending, a disciplinary body found.
By Ed Shanahan
No, Black workers aren’t being “decimated” by new immigrants.
By Paul Krugman
The woman, Sonya Massey, 36, called 911 on July 6 because she believed there was an intruder in her home. She was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy who has been fired and is charged with murder.
By Jesus Jiménez
He wrote of how 50 Black sailors were court-martialed for refusing to keep loading munitions onto cargo ships in 1944 after explosions had killed hundreds. They were exonerated this month.
By Richard Sandomir
Residentes latinos en la capital del estado dicen que llevaban meses alertando de la situación incluso antes de unos asesinatos en una tienda guatemalteca.
By Christina Morales
Mr. Walker, who oversaw $7 billion in grants, plans to leave at the end of 2025 after what will have been 12 years.
By Robin Pogrebin
History will remember what this former lion of the Senate accomplished from the West Wing to improve Black communities across the nation.
By Al Sharpton
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The shameless presence of white supremacists here tells us something about the similarity between the politics of the past and our political moment.
By Margaret Renkl
Latinos in Montgomery, Ala., said they had been sounding the alarm for months, describing the killings at a grocery store as the culmination of unchecked violence.
By Christina Morales
In interviews, some Black voters expressed concern about whether Americans were ready to elect Kamala Harris, who has the backing of President Biden.
By Jeremy W. Peters and Clyde McGrady
Former President Donald J. Trump has an aggressive — and some argue offensive — campaign using hip-hop and rap to reach young Black and Latino voters.
By Jennifer Medina
Carlos Espina forma parte de un nuevo tipo de personalidades de las redes sociales a quienes los políticos, especialmente los de la Casa Blanca de Biden, ven como locutores de la era moderna.
By Sapna Maheshwari and Ken Bensinger
If a lunch with your boss makes you feel uncomfortable, you don’t have to go. Suggest an alternative.
By Anna Holmes
Indian Americans are now the largest and most politically active group among Asian Americans. Among their recent milestones: Vice President Kamala Harris, two G.O.P. presidential candidates — and a possible second lady.
By Amy Qin and Jonathan Wolfe
A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack for the civil rights movement.
By Trip Gabriel
The lawmakers and donors who have been the most outspoken about keeping President Biden in the race are driven by a concern that ditching him could also mean bypassing his vice president.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Robert Jimison, Erica L. Green and Erin Schaff
Early in the civil rights movement, a Georgia governor tried to ban Black players from the game, but after a protest by Georgia Tech students, Grier was allowed to play.
By Richard Sandomir
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Some Black Democrats are speaking out against what they see as a disregard for their voice as the party frets over Mr. Biden’s candidacy.
By Robert Jimison
Critics slammed the idea of “restricting audiences on the basis of race,” but at a recent performance, Black spectators praised producers for creating a safe space.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
In a new memoir, the marine biologist Jasmin Graham reflects on her passion for studying sharks and the barriers she refused to let stop her.
By Katrina Miller
She starred in kung fu movies from the modern origins of the form in midcentury Hong Kong to the worldwide breakout “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
By Alex Traub
We won’t preserve American democracy through silence and timidity.
By David French
Mr. Biden appeared to forget the name of his Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin III, and instead refers to him as the “Black man” in an interview with BET.
By Eric Schmitt
A Public Health Service employee, he turned whistle-blower after learning of decades-long research involving hundreds of poor, infected Black men who were left untreated.
By Trip Gabriel
Carlos Espina is among a new kind of social media personalities whom politicians, especially those in the Biden White House, view as modern-day broadcasters.
By Sapna Maheshwari and Ken Bensinger
Charleston’s International African American Museum helps visitors fill in the blanks of their family’s pasts.
By Jonathan Abrams
Encuestas y grupos de sondeo muestran que más latinos afirman que confían en Trump y los republicanos por encima del presidente Joe Biden y los demócratas para gestionar mejor la migración en la frontera sur.
By Jazmine Ulloa
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The men had objected to working until safety concerns were addressed following an explosion at a port near San Francisco that claimed hundreds of lives.
By John Ismay
Many Hispanic Republicans watched with pride as the Florida senator spoke, but some expressed disappointment over his defense of Trump.
By Jazmine Ulloa and Annie Karni
The first Black American model to appear on the cover of GQ magazine, he was an avatar of male beauty for nearly half a century.
By Penelope Green
The president plans to promote his economic and immigration policies as he tries to re-energize his campaign in the battleground state.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs
Hispanic voters disillusioned with Democrats want tougher immigration enforcement, but dozens of interviews showed many unfamiliar with details of Trump’s proposal.
By Jazmine Ulloa
“The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist,” part of Lincoln Center’s summer festival, aims to shine light on police violence in the United States.
By Javier C. Hernández
The president courted Black voters in Nevada by focusing on an economic message. But the tumult of recent weeks still penetrated his remarks.
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Robert Jimison
Its easier to kick off a conversation when you’re sporting some fine footwear.
By Brent Holmes
Jesse Katz’s true-crime narrative, “The Rent Collectors,” delivers a nuanced portrait of a community racked by poverty and violence and deprived of opportunities to get ahead.
By Ben Ehrenreich
Los candidatos demócratas consideran que el derecho al aborto podría resonar tanto entre los hombres latinos como entre las mujeres, porque en esencia tiene que ver con las libertades del individuo.
By Jazmine Ulloa
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Glyphs and pictographs at a site in Texas represent generations of settlement by Indigenous peoples.
By Dimitri Staszewski and Franz Lidz
La idea de que tú también puedes ascender del barrio a Hollywood a base de esfuerzo no encaja con una generación desilusionada con el mito de la meritocracia.
By Yarimar Bonilla
We spoke to them about why they feel like their votes, while important, don’t seem to translate into the type of change they want to see in their daily lives.
By Julie Bosman, Noah Throop, Kassie Bracken and Mark Boyer
The group discusses the former president, the 2024 election, race and more.
By Patrick Healy, Adrian J. Rivera and Kristen Soltis Anderson
El torneo, que comenzó el 20 de junio, ha perdido parte de la emoción sudamericana que lo caracteriza al jugarse completamente en EE. UU. El escenario de la final podría devolverle su típica energía festiva.
By Patricia Mazzei
Few would argue there could be a more perfect setting for the final game of the Copa América soccer tournament on Sunday night.
By Patricia Mazzei
The Apgar test grades infants in five areas, including skin tone. Babies of color score lower, and may be subjected to unnecessary treatment.
By Roni Caryn Rabin
The pieces that the Indigenous model and activist wears are symbols that reclaim sacred traditions and practices from her communities.
By Amelia Diamond
These candidates say the issue cannot be avoided in 2024, and dismiss the notion that focusing on men, who typically prioritize the economy, is a risk.
By Jazmine Ulloa
In 1975, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ordered every town in the state to make way for multifamily housing. It’s been a long journey.
By Roshan Abraham
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A Utica, N.Y., officer’s fatal shooting of a 13-year-old provokes anger among the city’s Karen residents, members of an ethnic group from Myanmar.
By Hurubie Meko
In 1921, an Army veteran who was traveling home stopped in Tulsa, Okla., only to be caught in one of the worst racial attacks in American history.
By Audra D. S. Burch
Readers offer varying assessments and call on Donald Trump to hold one as well. Also: Steve Bannon’s chilling answer about U.S. Jews; Gettysburg’s meaning.
The notion that you, too, can rise from the Barrio to Hollywood through sheer grit doesn’t speak to a generation disillusioned with the myth of meritocracy.
By Yarimar Bonilla
By striving for authenticity, brands like Ebbets Field Flannels have created jerseys, hats and shirts that are equal parts fashion statement and history lesson.
By Alexander Nazaryan
An exhibition in Atlanta aims to capture the complexities of the sprawling Southern saga and its legacy in the space where it was written.
By Rick Rojas
For many Black women, summertime calls for braids. Pricing for knotless braids, which are faster to braid, feel lighter and have gotten more popular, depends on the length and size of each braid and color blend, and whether hair used in the boho style is human or synthetic.
By Lola Fadulu and Naima Green
This documentary follows a renowned Inuit activist over seven years, making sense of the ways in which racism and impoverishment can abrade one’s sense of self.
By Devika Girish
Leaders of the Democratic Party’s most loyal voting bloc have expressed frustration with the calls for President Biden to step aside, mindful of undermining Vice President Kamala Harris.
By Maya King and Jazmine Ulloa
A former employee sued the nonprofit, accusing it of denying professional opportunities because of her race and gender.
By Michael J. de la Merced
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8000 kilómetros, 8 países y una familia en su camino a Estados Unidos.
By Shauntel Lowe
A reporter and a visual journalist followed the Aguilar Ortega family during a dangerous journey to the United States.
By Shauntel Lowe
After thousands of sequoias were destroyed by extreme wildfires, tribes are conducting cultural burns.
By Jim Robbins and Eros Hoagland
Green energy is caught in red tape.
By Robinson Meyer
Some South Asian women remember being embarrassed of their families’ hair oiling traditions. Now, beauty brands, bloggers and celebrities are embracing them.
By Alisha Haridasani Gupta
Gérald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said that more than 50 people — including candidates, their substitutes or supporters — had been “physically assaulted” during the campaign.
By Catherine Porter
The outcome left no party with an absolute majority and France bracing for potential political paralysis.
By Roger Cohen
Readers take issue with advice in a guide to party etiquette. Also: Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump; occupational therapy for older New Yorkers.
A radio host told CNN that she had received a list of eight questions to approve before one of the president’s interviews on Wednesday.
By Michael D. Shear
Representative Emilia Sykes is one of only a few Black Democrats in Congress who don’t resemble most of their constituents, and whose political survival this year will help determine which party controls the House.
By Robert Jimison
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After more than a century, researchers hope to finally identify the victims of one of the worst racial attacks in American history.
By Audra D. S. Burch
Hearing echoes of Independence Day a century ago, when Americans were clashing over race, religion, immigration and presidential candidates.
By Dan Barry
Black Spin Global found an audience with its cheeky coverage of the growing number of ranked Black tennis players. It also offered them a forum.
By Stacy Y. China
This artist’s indispensable archive of queer and Latino life on display at MoMA PS1 leaves us intoxicated by the energy of a world too long under the radar.
By Zoë Hopkins
Young Latino voters are progressives. But Mr. Biden needs to give them a reason to vote for him.
By Jean Guerrero
The president’s appearances have come under intense scrutiny since he appeared feeble in his debate against former President Donald J. Trump.
By Michael D. Shear
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