The New York Times – Film:
Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what achieving racial equality in America would take.
Category: Race and Ethnicity
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I Made an Offensive Joke. But So Did Everyone Else! Why Did I Get Fired?
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Plus, should you endure a stultifying work life to enable a happy personal life?
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘The Moment I Remember Most’
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.
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I Feel Like a Fish Out of Water After Relocating for My Wife
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
Our Ask the Therapist columnist, Lori Gottlieb, advises a reader who moved to the South to satisfy his partner and now wants to find his way home.
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Roberta Alexander, Widely Acclaimed Soprano, Dies at 76
The New York Times – Music:
An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when being considered for a wide variety of opera roles.
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How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image
The New York Times – T Magazine:
Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.
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American Airlines Accused of Discrimination by Interracial Couple
The New York Times – Travel:
In a lawsuit, two newlyweds say they were detained after a passenger and airline employees wrongly suspected the Black husband of trafficking his white wife.
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Why ‘Show Boat’ Is America’s Most Enduring, Unstable Musical
The New York Times – Music:
A revival called “Show/Boat: A River” joins a history of reimagining the musical that goes back nearly a century, to its first performances.
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Black Satire Is Having Its Hollywood Moment, but Something Is Missing
The New York Times – Film:
Recent releases like “American Fiction” and “The American Society of Magical Negroes” have used absurdist humor to examine race. But they have also depicted narrow views of Blackness.