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News
‘Hood Century’: How One Man Is Redefining Midcentury Modern Architecture
In 1928, a Black congregation in Cincinnati bought a German Gothic brick structure originally built in 1865 as a synagogue.…
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Style
The Fashion Sale of the Century
André Leon Talley amassed piles of Louis Vuitton, Versace, Chanel and Fendi. Now it’s all about to go up for…
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News
The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned
In 1968, four days before he was shot on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the Rev. Dr.…
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News
When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough
In three Broadway plays this season, a quest for financial stability can’t undo the trauma of the past or dismantle…
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News
Could Black Flight Change a Model of Integration?
American suburbs have long faced the issue of white families leaving as more residents of color move in. But in…
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News
Selling Houses While Black
About 6 percent of real estate agents and brokers in the United States are Black. Their white peers make almost…
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News
She Made History as a Black Basketball Star. Why Won’t Her College Name Its Arena for Her?
The Walter Sillers Coliseum, a 3,000-seat brick arena, has been the basketball mecca of Delta State University since it was…
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US
Federal Panel Rules South Carolina Congressional District Is Illegal Gerrymander
A three-judge federal panel unanimously ruled that South Carolina’s redrawn First Congressional District illegally removed 62 percent of the Black…
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News
A Black Composer’s Legacy Flourishes 500 Years After His Birth
The reputation of Vicente Lusitano, one of the earliest known composers of African descent active in Europe, was thwarted for…
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World
For Black South Africans, Apartheid Was a ‘House of Bondage’
In a newly reissued photo book from 1967, Ernest Cole surveys the ever-present atrocities of European oppression.