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‘Gun & Powder’ Review: Twin Vigilantes Stake Claim to the American West
The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice for the crime of slavery, in 19th-century Texas.
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Faith Ringgold Perfectly Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness
Ringgold’s landmark career was long ignored by the art establishment. But she kept going, mixing the personal and political, and a late surge of attention rightly put her smack in the middle of MoMA.
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Newyork
It’s Time to End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes
Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are one of the most powerful and stealthy engines of racism and wealth inequality our nation has ever produced. And while the Biden administration has offered many solutions for ...
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US
What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs
Some companies discriminated against Black applicants much more than others, and H.R. practices made a big difference.
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Jim White, Your Favorite Songwriter’s Favorite Drummer
During the last 30 years, the musician has emerged as one of indie-rock’s most distinctive drummers on other people’s records. At last, he’s made his own.
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World
Pope Says Ukraine Should Have the ‘Courage of the White Flag’
Francis’s words have raised questions about whether he was suggesting that Ukraine surrender, but a Vatican spokesman said the pope meant “cease-fire and negotiation.”
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Newyork
How ‘Past Lives’ Changed My Mind About My Relationship
My most stressful moviegoing experience last year was not the mushroom cloud in “Oppenheimer” or the murder trial scenes in “Anatomy of a Fall,” but watching the story of a love triangle among a Korean American woman, a Korean guy and a white guy in ...
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Nona Faustine Never Leaves the Frame
In striking self-portraits at the Brooklyn Museum, the artist revisits locations with histories of enslavement and reimagines the body as a site of power.
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Newyork
Easing the Daily Reality of My Strangeness
Like many African American professors, I teach at a predominantly white institution (Wheaton College) and live in the largely white small city where it’s located, outside Chicago. I have not experienced serious acts of discrimination, but that doesn ...
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Newyork
The Saga of the Red Couch
Jeremy Allen White made the sofa from his Calvin Klein campaign famous, but once upon a time the red velvet couch was part of an ambitious American art project.
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