Category: Black Issues

In Louisiana Governor’s Election, a True Test of Trump’s Sway

Though the president has injected himself into high-profile races this year, the governor’s runoff in Louisiana may be one of the purest tests of his influence.President Trump visited Louisiana on Wednesday to bolster the candidacy of Eddie Rispone, the Republican candidate for governor.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York TimesWEST MONROE, La. — Walking away from a T-shirt…

Chicago Schools Cancel Classes as Teachers Prepare to Strike

The Chicago Teachers Union and the city’s new mayor failed to reach a contract deal. Classes were canceled for 300,000 public school students on Thursday. Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago said classes would be canceled on Thursday, as a standoff continued with the city’s public school teachers.Credit...Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune, via Associated PressOct. 16, 2019CHICAGO…

In Tribute to Cummings, Obama Hints at Rebuke of Trump

Politics|In Tribute to Cummings, Obama Hints at Rebuke of TrumpThe former president said that Representative Elijah E. Cummings showed that “you’re not a sucker to have integrity.” Former President Barack Obama at the funeral service for Representative Elijah E. Cummings on Friday.Credit...Justin T. Gellerson for The New York TimesOct. 25, 2019WASHINGTON — Former President Barack…

As Pete Buttigieg Courts Black Voters, His Sexuality Is a Hurdle for Some

A Buttigieg campaign memo that surfaced last week suggested “being gay was a barrier” to support from some black voters in South Carolina. Pete Buttigieg spoke on Saturday to South Carolina voters at a homecoming tailgate event at Allen University, a historically black campus in Columbia.Credit...Bryan Cereijo for The New York TimesROCK HILL, S.C. —…

Chicago Schools Cancel Classes as Teachers Prepare to Strike

The Chicago Teachers Union and the city’s new mayor failed to reach a contract deal. Classes were canceled for 300,000 public school students on Thursday. Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago said classes would be canceled on Thursday, as a standoff continued with the city’s public school teachers.Credit...Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune, via Associated PressOct. 16, 2019CHICAGO…

‘Racist’ Snub of Mother Cabrini? Cuomo Needles de Blasio

The actor Chazz Palminteri called the mayor’s wife racist over a decision to not honor a saint with a statue. Then the governor stepped in.Chazz Palminteri’s call to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s weekly radio show on Friday led to a live confrontation between the mayor and the actor.Credit...Michael Loccisano/Getty ImagesPublished Oct. 11, 2019Updated Oct. 15,…

Wildfires, Impeachment, Facebook: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 28, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Kyle Grillot for The New York Times1. Californians are increasingly using the word “apocalypse” to describe the raging wildfires, evacuation orders, forced power outages and worsening air conditions…

Impeachment, Prince Harry, Diahann Carroll: Your Friday Evening Briefing

Oct. 4, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Pete Marovich for The New York Times1. House leaders have requested documents for the impeachment inquiry from Vice President Mike Pence related to “any role you may have played” in the Ukraine matter.In a letter, the chairmen of three…

Ed Clark, Pioneering Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 93

He used a broom for the sense of speed and monumentality it imparted to his paintings. He hit on the idea as young artist living hand-to-mouth in Paris. Ed Clark at his home studio in Chelsea in 2014.Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesPublished Oct. 19, 2019Updated Oct. 21, 2019Ed Clark, an African-American abstract painter who…

Impeachment, Chicago, Halloween: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

Oct. 31, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times1. The bitterly divided House voted on nearly exact partisan lines regarding the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The Democrats’ victory laying out the impeachment rules set up a critical public phase of the process.The…

Ed Clark, Pioneering Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 93

He used a broom for the sense of speed and monumentality it imparted to his paintings. He hit on the idea as young artist living hand-to-mouth in Paris. Ed Clark at his home studio in Chelsea in 2014.Credit...Chester Higgins Jr./The New York TimesPublished Oct. 19, 2019Updated Oct. 21, 2019Ed Clark, an African-American abstract painter who…

Syria, White House, Opioids: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 16, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times1. President Trump lashed out on Syria.Mr. Trump essentially washed his hands of the Turkish assault on the United States’ Kurdish allies,…

Owe Lunch Money? Don’t Plan on Going to Prom

Caroline Torres, right, and Lamar Robinson prepare after-school meals at the Community Food Bank of New Jersey.Credit...Sarah Blesener for The New York TimesNov. 1, 2019Updated 11:08 a.m. ETA suburban New Jersey school system has wrestled for months with a problem common in other districts: an accumulating pile of student lunch debt.The policy in Cherry Hill…

Brexit, California Wildfires, Floppy Disks: Your Thursday Evening Briefing

Oct. 24, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images1. Boris Johnson is anteing up the Brexit stakes.The British prime minister challenged lawmakers to approve a general election on Dec. 12, his latest effort to break the deadlock and throw Brexit back to voters.He is…

Israel, Opioids, Canadian Elections: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 21, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Ronen Zvulun/Reuters1. The Israeli prime minister conceded coalition talks to his rival.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, above, gave up his attempt at forming a government, clearing the way for…

China, Harvard, Jessye Norman: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

Oct. 1, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times1. The police shot a protester in Hong Kong, resulting in a split-screen contrast with the pageantry of China’s National Day.As Beijing celebrated the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party’s rule with…

Syria, N.B.A., Nobels: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 7, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images1. “It is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars.”That was President Trump, defending on Twitter his decision to…

Samuel Little Is Most Prolific Serial Killer in U.S. History, F.B.I. Says

Mr. Little, 79, has confessed to 93 murders, and the agency believes “all of his confessions are credible.”The F.B.I. released five sketches drawn by Samuel Little of unidentified women he says he killed. Their locations, clockwise from top left: New Orleans, 1982; Las Vegas, 1993; Miami, 1971-72; Covington, Ky., 1984; North Little Rock, Ark., 1992-94.Credit...F.B.I.After…

How Iran’s President Left Trump Hanging, and Macron in the Hall

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday.Credit...Brittainy Newman/The New York TimesPublished Sept. 30, 2019Updated Oct. 4, 2019The telephone line had been secretly set up. President Trump waited on the other end. All President Hassan Rouhani of Iran had to do was come out of his hotel suite and walk…

Hillary Clinton Urges Defense of Democracy at Cummings’s Funeral

Comparing the congressman to a biblical prophet, the former secretary of state said Elijah Cummings “stood against the corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.”VideoIn her remarks at the funeral for Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Hillary Clinton honored him as a fighter for democracy.CreditCredit...Justin T. Gellerson for The New York TimesOct. 25, 2019Speaking at…

Syria, Google, California: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Briefing|Syria, Google, California: Your Wednesday Evening BriefingOct. 23, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCredit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times1. Two dozen Republicans disrupted the impeachment proceedings on Capitol Hill, storming a secure House Intelligence Committee suite. They refused to leave for five hours.The demonstrators, seen above outside…

Greta Thunberg, Ukraine, Emmys: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Published Sept. 23, 2019Updated Oct. 1, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCreditCarlo Allegri/Reuters1. “You all come to us young people for hope? How dare you!” At the United Nations climate summit, dozens of presidents, prime…

Donald Trump, Israel, John Coltrane: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing

Sept. 25, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times1. The news from Washington is moving at a breakneck pace. We’ll break it down for you.This morning, the White House released a call log that showed Mr. Trump urging the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky,…

‘I Have to Get That’: How Henry Chalfant Became a Graffiti Ambassador

The artist’s photographs, a major act of urban historical preservation, are on view at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.Henry Chalfant at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where his first United States retrospective is being exhibited.CreditHenry Chalfant/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Jackson Krule for The New York TimesWhen Henry Chalfant arrived in New…

Joseph Wilson, Who Challenged Iraq War Narrative, Dies at 69

He contradicted a statement in President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address. A week later, his wife at the time, Valerie Plame, was outed as a C.I.A. agent. Former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson in 2006 with his wife, the former C.I.A. officer Valerie Plame. CreditLawrence Jackson/Associated PressPublished Sept. 27, 2019Updated Oct. 8, 2019Joseph C.…

Montgomery, Ala., Elects Steven Reed, Its First Black Mayor

U.S.|Montgomery, Ala., Elects Steven Reed, Its First Black MayorVoters chose Mr. Reed, a probate judge, to lead a majority-black city almost 200 years after it was incorporated.ImageSteven L. Reed delivered his acceptance speech after being elected as mayor of Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday.CreditCreditLynsey Addario for The New York TimesOct. 8, 2019MONTGOMERY, Ala. — On the…

Bears (and Lynx and Rhinos) Are Officially ‘Dangerous,’ N.Y. Says

New York|Bears (and Lynx and Rhinos) Are Officially ‘Dangerous,’ N.Y. SaysA spate of attacks on people prompted the state to expand its list of harmful animals to include more snakes, monkeys and others.ImageNew York is seeking to expand its list of dangerous animals to include the Eurasian lynx, above, as well as a variety of…

Boeing, Brexit, Syria: Your Friday Evening Briefing

Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.Oct. 18, 2019(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest.ImageCreditAnna Moneymaker/The New York Times1. Being presidential is easy, President Trump said: “All you have to do is act like a stiff.”So instead, at his latest campaign rally…

Anger Over Texas Black Woman Killed by Police

Following the fatal shooting of a black woman in her home by a white officer in Fort Worth, Texas, over the weekend, community members say they have little faith in the role of law enforcement in the city. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was in her home in the early morning hours of Oct. 12 when officer…

By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history

“Erased Lynching Series: der Wild West Show,” (Set 1) by Ken Gonzalez-Day, 2006. (Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles) An old black-and-white photograph shows a crowd of people gathered around something, but it is not clear just what. There’s something eerie about it but you don’t really know why. The photograph