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E.P.A. Plans to Close All Environmental Justice Offices
The Trump administration intends to eliminate Environmental Protection Agency offices responsible for addressing the disproportionately high levels of pollution facing poor communities, according...
Four Black Women Who Mixed Fine Dining, Fashion and Art in New York
These four restaurants were synonymous with their owners, all serving their takes on soul or Southern food. Before they arrived, a craving for...
Olga James, a Star of ‘Carmen Jones’ and ‘Mr. Wonderful,’ Dies at 95
Olga James, an actress and operatic soprano whose career highlights occurred nearly back to back in the mid-1950s — as Harry Belafonte’s jilted...
Overlooked No More: Lena Richard, Who Brought Creole Cooking to the Masses
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.In...
Brooklyn’s Outlandish Hosts Black History Month Hike
On the surface, hiking can seem as if it has a low barrier to entry. How hard is it to get up and...
