8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture

8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the CultureFrom music to movies, canceled podcasts to toppled monuments, our writers take stock of the culture we shared in the year after George Floyd’s murder.Richard A. ChanceBlack Squares, Mass-Produced
by Amanda Hess
The ‘Reply All’ Meltdown
by Reggie Ugwu
Racism Became the Genre
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A Wedding in Hawaii for Sade’s Son

Growing up, Sade’s music had always given Emily Shakeshaft a feeling of comfort. Years later, when she met the recording artist’s son, Izaak Adu-Watts, their connection felt familiar.The soundtrack of Emily Margaret Shakeshaft’s childhood became a means of comfort and grounding as she grew older. One of the ...
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Modern Love Podcast: She Left Me There

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Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher“After touring the place, my grandmother seemed reluctant to leave. Finally, she bent down and said, ‘I am going home, but you are staying here.’”Brian ReaKacey Vu Shap had no desire to return to the Vietnamese orphanage of his ...
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How to Be Alone

Finding a new balance between solitude and socializing.Welcome. “Sinead O’Connor is alone, which is how she prefers to be.” So begins Amanda Hess’s profile of the musician most famous for her 1990 version of “Nothing Compares 2 U” and for tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul ...
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Naomi Osaka’s Net Worth, Beyond the Court

From the Met Gala roster to your lunchtime salad bowl, the tennis champion is suddenly ubiquitous.LOS ANGELES — In today’s world of celebrity branding, captions speak louder than words. But Naomi Osaka’s are decidedly understated.“Keep on keeping on,” the 23-year-old tennis champion posted on Instagram under two on-court ...
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Tiny Love Stories: ‘Nothing My Husband Did Helped’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.Ella and VenusThe closest thing my daughter, Ella, could get to a pandemic pet was a Venus flytrap (named Venus). Ella won a scholarship to boarding school and left last August. I lit candles for Venus ...
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Liz Cheney: The Model of a Modern Never-Trumper

The representative from Wyoming embodies a different kind of Republican female power player tradition.In the six days since her defenestration from the leadership ranks of the Republican Party, Liz Cheney — the congresswoman from Wyoming, right-wing Republican, daughter of the former vice president and now leader of the ...
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Things To Do At Home

This week, discover the cultural and societal impact of sneakers, practice your math skills or explore what a net zero climate might look like.Here is a sampling of the week’s events and how to tune in (all times are Eastern). Note that events are subject to change after ...
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What is the Future of New York City?

What will happen to the city after the pandemic? Here are five scenarios to ponder.“It’s a ghost town,” former President Donald J. Trump said of New York City last fall during a presidential debate. “It’s dying, everyone’s leaving New York.”He was not the only one who saw all ...
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Paulina Porizkova on Instagram, Aaron Sorkin and Aging

When the writer and model Paulina Porizkova was asked by Aaron Sorkin to join him at the Oscars for what would be their second real date, she hesitated.The first had gone well. “He’s a great kisser,” Ms. Porizkova, 56, said on a Zoom call from Los Angeles, in ...
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Dogecoin Went Wild in 2021. Here’s What It Taught Us.

Created as a cryptocurrency parody in 2013, Dogecoin languished for years. Then, in 2021, it went absolutely wild. What have its holders learned?In 2013, two friends who met in a chat room created Dogecoin as a joke. Named after a meme of an expressive dog, it was meant ...
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The Assorted Teachings of Dogecoin

Created as a cryptocurrency parody in 2013, Dogecoin languished for years. Then, in 2021, it went absolutely wild. What have its holders learned?In 2013, two friends who met in a chat room created Dogecoin as a joke. Named after a meme of an expressive dog, it was meant ...
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What to Do This Weekend

Craft projects and gospel choirs.Want to get the At Home newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here.Welcome. After a year of limited socializing, seeing more people in person can be as exhausting as it is exciting. Activities once commonplace — hugging a friend, dining indoors, going to the ...
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He Said (I Do), She Said (I Do)

Stacey Chen and Nick Cugini first met in high school as members of competing debating teams. In college, they were on the same side.When Nick Cugini received a Facebook friend request from Stacey Chen, he was intrigued, and a little amused.The two, who were then teenagers, had met ...
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