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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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