Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist by training and a storyteller by inclination whose scores of books and articles transported readers into the minds of children, opening new vistas on issues as varied as race relations and moral reasoning, died on Thursday in Lincoln, Mass. He was 97. The death, at a hospice facility, was confirmed…
A contestant on the new season of “Love Island USA” was dropped from the reality show after videos of her using a racial slur against Black people surfaced online, just days before the season’s premiere. Peacock, the network that streams the show, confirmed on Sunday that the contestant, Vasana Montgomery, had been dismissed. Montgomery did…
The families of two Black infants who were unknowingly enrolled as test subjects in a mid-1960s vaccine trial for a respiratory virus and died shortly afterward have sued the United States government. Ross Otto Hambrick and Victor Marcellus King were just a few months old when they were administered a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus,…
David Henderson, a poet who rose to prominence with the pathbreaking Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and went on to write a best-selling biography of Jimi Hendrix that changed the way many interpreted Hendrix’s life, music and untimely end, died on May 14 in Lincoln Park, N.J. He was 83. His death, at a…
“Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield,” President Lyndon Johnson declared as he signed the Voting Rights Act on Aug. 6, 1965. “This act flows from a clear and simple wrong,” he continued. “Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote because…
The Supreme Court’s decision on Wednesday on the Voting Rights Act is a mind-boggling piece of judicial overreach. Six conservative justices voted to weaken the act, in that way substituting their own judgment for that of Congress, which reauthorized the law 20 years ago with overwhelming bipartisan support, including a unanimous vote in the Senate….
My first view of the Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in Cape Town was dramatic, to say the least. Before me spread a wide crescent bed of tall blue agapanthus with a great lawn behind it, and then the land swooped up a mountainside with trees sheltering beds of plants and freshwater streams. Beyond, a deep…
