Black People

September 16, 2020

Sweatpants Are Not Forever

So to New York Fashion Week, the first event of the pandemic-doused world that may provide at least the inkling of an answer to the questions […]
September 15, 2020

A Civil War Political Movement Reawakens — Complete With Capes

In January, the artist Hank Willis Thomas began enigmatically summoning designers, musicians and activists he knew to his studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was […]
September 11, 2020

Larry Wilmore Doesn’t Miss Late Night, but He’s Back Anyway

Back when Larry Wilmore was about to introduce “The Nightly Show,” his short-lived late-night series on Comedy Central, he saw a tweet from an angry prospective […]
September 9, 2020

Byron Lars Is Still Here

For the veteran fashion designer Byron Lars, who was named “rookie of the year” by Women’s Wear Daily in 1991, fashion moments never stop. Inside an […]
September 4, 2020

Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. When Kamala Harris […]
September 3, 2020

‘Black Love’ Keeps It Simple: Honesty, not Antics

In an episode from 2018, the actor Glynn Turman sat on a sofa with his arm draped affectionately around his wife, Jo-An, as the two recounted […]
August 29, 2020

Fashion Advertisers Rediscover Black Models

Nearly a decade ago, when Precious Lee arrived for a modeling go-see, she was grilled about her ethnic background. The clients, who were representing a deep-pocketed […]
August 23, 2020

Black Artists Find Ways to Make Their Voices Heard in Portland

Over the years, Bobby Fouther has watched the historic center of African-American life in Portland bloom, shrink and expand again. The 69-year-old artist was born into […]
August 16, 2020

You May Not Know This Pandemic Winner, but Your Tween Probably Does

When her middle school closed in March, Garvey Mortley stopped going to lacrosse practice and playing drums in the school band. With so much time at […]
August 12, 2020

He’s Sharing the History of Black New York, One Tweet at a Time

When a video of a racist attack on Black children by white residents of Rosedale, Queens, in 1975 was posted on Twitter last summer, it quickly […]