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Arts
How Cave Canem Has Nurtured Generations of Black Poets
The poets’ collective, which was founded in 1996, has worked with poets who have gone on to win many of…
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Books
A Political Convert in the Long Shadow of the Civil War
In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of…
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Science
Not All Heroes Wear Capes, but These Termites Did for Science
This study has everything: jumping spiders; insects donning striped and solid patterns; and evolutionary lessons about predators and prey.
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World
Pardon Recipients Seek to Sell Trump on His Own Sentencing Law
The Republican front-runner has a history of making racist statements, but some advisers think highlighting his signature law could help…
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Books
Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief
“I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking,” the painter Kerry James Marshall wrote in 2018. “Material…
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Arts
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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Arts
Ballantine House Overhaul to ‘Wake It Up and Shake It Up’
The renovated Gilded Age mansion of beer makers in Newark is filled with surprises: a Black history from the 19th…
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News
Race Cannot Be Used to Predict Heart Disease, Scientists Say
The American Heart Association will release a new clinical tool that removes race as a factor in predicting who will…
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News
The Squandered Potential of Tim Scott
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week having failed to make…
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Arts
Indianapolis Museum Leader Hired After Racism Outcry Leaves Her Role
Colette Pierce Burnette was appointed last year by Newfields, whose campus includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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