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Murder Trial Lays Bare a Hip-Hop Pioneer’s Double Life

In the years before his death, the Run-DMC D.J. Jam Master Jay secretly turned to the drug trade to keep…

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How the Manager of a Gourmet Grocery Store Spends His Sundays

Scott Goldshine has worked at Zabar’s in Manhattan for decades. He roams the aisles on Sundays, snacks on rugelach and…

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My Mother Got on a Bike. It Changed Her Life.

When my mother was 62 years old, she dusted off a clunky Cannondale with Mary Poppins handles and joined a…

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With Prison Certain and Death Likely, Why Did Navalny Return?

An activist who thrived on agitation, he feared irrelevancy in exile. Winning new respect as he continued to lambast the…

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Charles Sallis, 89, Dies; Upended the Teaching of Mississippi History

He collaborated on a textbook so unsparing in its review of the state’s grim past that it was barred from…

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7-Year-Old Son of Houston Church Shooter Still Struggling to Survive

Samuel, born three months premature, had already faced challenges for much of his life as his mother battled mental illness,…

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The Meaning of the Super Bowl ‘He Gets Us’ Ad

During Super Bowl Sunday, a 60-second ad aired about Jesus Christ, and no one seemed angrier about it than Christians.…

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Joe Louis Dudley, Pioneering Hair Care Entrepreneur, Dies at 86

Starting in their kitchen, he and his wife at the time built a thriving company making beauty products for Black…

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Book Club: Let’s Talk About Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen Barbara Kingsolver’s novel “Demon Copperhead,” a riff on “David Copperfield” that…

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A Times reporter reflects on a conversation with Navalny, an uncommon Russian politician.

Sitting in the warren of rooms in a hipster brick Moscow office building where Aleksei A. Navalny ran both his…

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