The latest protests are in West Virginia (again) and Oakland, as a national movement pushes back against two decades of school reforms.
Florence Mars captured a fading but no less virulent racial order in Mississippi, when forces beyond its control were gradually dismantling the state’s system of legalized segregation.
President Trump went to Miami not only to warn Nicolás Maduro that his days as Venezuela’s leader were numbered, but also to court a key bloc of voters ahead of the 2020 election.
Far from spreading Shariah, as Islamophobes have suggested, America’s Muslim clerics are focusing on a more familiar trend: youngsters blending into American life.
An All-Star weekend in his hometown, Charlotte, N.C., affirmed the growth, and greatness, of the Golden State Warriors guard.
A House seat was hanging in the balance as state election officials heard the results of an investigation into absentee ballot fraud.
The city did the rest of the country a favor. Corporate-relocation handouts are terrible economic policy.
The Supreme Court will consider whether a Mississippi prosecutor’s long record of excluding black jurors amounted to unconstitutional race discrimination.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections will consider whether fraud tainted a campaign for a seat in Congress, and whether the Ninth District should hold a new vote.
It’s a myth that proximity to blackness immunizes white people from doing racist things.
Plus, tax season brings bad news, and the Fed offers more clues about its change of heart.
Virginia can teach New York a few things about how to make a deal that actually works.
An incorrect tax return led to a huge check for a 29-year-old resident of Tampa, Fla., according to a forfeiture complaint filed by the federal government.
A divisive bill restricting the rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people, passed in 2016, caused sports organizations to abandon North Carolina. A partial repeal brought them back.
The region has its act together and knows what it is doing, officials said.
In 2005, Roland J. Bourgeois Jr., 55, opened fire at three young men crossing through his neighborhood to reach an evacuation site.
Economists have long criticized tax breaks to corporations; politicians and the public may be starting to share their skepticism.
The Trump Organization has shelved plans for two hotel lines that the president’s sons once cast as part of the vision for “the next generation” of the company.
XPO said more than 400 employees would lose their jobs in April. The New York Times had reported on workers’ miscarriages and complaints of discrimination at the Memphis warehouse.
Participants in the Zulu parade, mostly black but some of them white, wear blackface and grass skirts. Now some are questioning whether the tradition should continue.
On a day nobody wanted to remember — or forget — Parkland students were observing a day of mourning for the 17 lives lost a year ago.
“It’s hard to differentiate what’s from the shooting and what’s from regular teenage anxiety.” Four students who survived the massacre at their high school told us how it had changed them.
The chief justice faces a time of great testing, both of himself and of the institution he heads, as the lower courts move rapidly even to his right.
From South Beach to Little Haiti and beyond, the metropolitan Miami area has plenty to offer everyone from beachgoers and music lovers to gallery hoppers and foodies.
Greg Carlson, a fugitive spotted in four states in the last 18 months, was killed in a predawn raid on his hotel room, the F.B.I. said.
A staunch war supporter, he rebranded “french fries” as “freedom fries,” but then opposed the war and sought to atone for his earlier support.
Why won’t he explain how his views have evolved?
A Second Empire-style condominium in Newport, R.I.; a brick Tudor in Omaha; and an 1870s home in Mobile, Ala.
A Second Empire-style condominium in Newport, a brick Tudor in Omaha and an 1870s home in Mobile.
Those at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School knew their lives would be transformed by the massacre. Many had no idea of the many ways that would happen.
As Virginia faces the possibility that its executive branch could include two men who once mocked African-Americans and a third accused of rape, Democratic women are divided over how to move forward.
According to the police, the bureau had received a tip about Scott P. Beierle, who killed two women and himself in the attack, but there was not enough information to act on.
Justin Fairfax was on the cusp of becoming Virginia’s governor. Then came allegations of sexual assault from early in his rise to prominence.
One of the detectives said this week that he did not think the disguise was inappropriate and he was trying to blend into a predominantly black neighborhood.
Federal prosecutors announced racketeering charges against dozens of people who they said belonged to the New Aryan Empire, which began as a prison gang.
The rapper was arrested for being in the country illegally. His lawyer said he would be released on bond on Wednesday.
Leading business groups haven’t joined in pushing for leadership changes, and Amazon is moving forward with a major office presence.
By upholding abortion precedent, the usually conservative justice may also be seeking to uphold something else.
No one was ever charged in the July 1946 Moore’s Ford lynchings in Walton County, Ga. More than 70 years later, new information could be forthcoming.
Big Freedia’s rap music is a part of the ether of modern New Orleans. So what better authentic travel guide to the city that so many tourists love to visit?
Big Freedia’s rap music is a part of the ether of modern New Orleans. So what better authentic travel guide to the city that so many tourists love to visit?
His presidency hasn’t been the boon for gun-rights supporters that they might have hoped.
The Northam/Fairfax scandals are forcing the party to reckon between its commitment to equality and its control of the state.
A charter school in Palmetto, Fla., plans to protect its students by arming security guards with Glock handguns and semiautomatic rifles.
Lawmakers are lashing out at teachers after their strikes. The children will lose the most.
A Democratic lawmaker’s push to swiftly begin impeachment proceedings stalled on Monday in the face of furious opposition from the party’s black caucus.
Ralph Northam’s early life, growing up on Virginia’s rural Eastern Shore, provides clues about how his perspectives on race were shaped.
Ralph Northam’s early life, growing up on Virginia’s rural Eastern Shore, provides clues about how his perspectives on race were shaped.
By moving to bar chaplains from the death chamber, the state has undermined the place of faith in the public sphere.
A draft resolution directs a House committee to determine whether allegations of sexual assault against Mr. Fairfax “constitute conduct sufficient to provide grounds for impeachment.”
If President Trump helps force President Nicolás Maduro out of office, Democrats fear it could transform Venezuelan Americans into loyal Republicans.
The results suggest how prevalent the racist practice has been in American culture.
There is no clear succession plan should the state’s lieutenant governor leave office amid allegations of sexual assault.
Like revisiting yearbook pages of students in blackface.
Not recognizing the intersection of both parts of his identity prevents us from fully understanding what’s at stake with his arrest by ICE.
If Democrats do not oust Mr. Fairfax, who faces sexual assault allegations, they could anger female voters. But if they push him out, they could deeply trouble African-Americans.
If Democrats do not oust Mr. Fairfax, who faces sexual assault allegations, they could anger female voters. But if they push him out, they could deeply trouble African-Americans.
Should we judge people only by their most shameful moments?
Justin Fairfax denied wrongdoing but found his political standing in a free fall by Friday night.
The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.
The chief justice, a student of legal rules governing precedent, balances guarding his court’s legitimacy against his generally conservative impulses.
Zephen Xaver, 21, was charged last month with five counts of first-degree murder. A customer and four bank employees were killed in the shooting in Sebring, Fla.
Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr., a decorated veteran, was brutally beaten by the police in a small South Carolina town in 1946. Now the town is facing up to its past.
Revelations about past racist behavior by top Virginia politicians are testing the state’s reputation as a progressive-minded beacon that backed Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
The new allegation follows one by a California professor, Vanessa Tyson, who says Mr. Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004.
The racial and sexual assault scandals that have roiled Virginia’s leaders are testing Americans’ views on failure, apology and when an act is unforgivable.
A bookstore in Atlanta where half of the books aren’t for sale?
In Virginia and in Washington, the line-of-succession laws need to change.
A deepening political crisis involving the state’s top elected officials is testing the party’s messaging on race and gender.
Blackface, with its roots in demeaning minstrel-show traditions, has persisted in fraternity houses and private clubs, occasionally exploding into public view.
Lawmakers in several states have been busy crafting legislation that would either protect abortion or make it illegal in the event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
Lawmakers in several states have been busy crafting legislation that would either protect abortion or make it illegal in the event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.
“Do we really want to judge all of our politicians by what they did in school?” one reader asks. Others weigh in.
Alabama allows a Christian chaplain to be present in its execution chamber but excluded a Muslim imam. The inmate, Domineque Ray, was executed Thursday night.
The law, requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was very similar to a Texas law the justices struck down in 2016.
Despite demands for Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation over a racist yearbook photo, he may now be better able to endure in office than some other Virginia officials swept up in scandal.
Thomas K. Norment Jr., the majority leader in the State Senate, denied responsibility for the racist material in the 1968 edition of the Virginia Military Institute yearbook.
Men and women have similar opinions. So do different racial groups and generations.
“Unexampled Courage,” by Richard Gergel, is a riveting account of the 1946 legal case that spurred the federal government to act in defense of racial equality.
The law’s supporters see it as a crucial step toward protecting the city’s reefs, which draw visitors from around the globe.
Named the best chef in the South, she runs two acclaimed New Orleans restaurants — 140 pounds of pasta at a time.
And is Medicare for All even possible?
Robert A. Stamm, who had been assigned to monitor the protests related to Gov. Ralph Northam, was placed on paid administrative leave pending a review.
A death row inmate in Alabama says the prison’s refusal to allow an imam to enter the execution chamber violates his constitutional rights.
The Justice Department is investigating a plea deal negotiated by President Trump’s labor secretary in 2007, when he was a top federal prosecutor in Miami.
The complete statement from Dr. Tyson, who has accused Mr. Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, of sexually assaulting her in 2004.
The complete statement from Dr. Tyson, who has accused Mr. Fairfax, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, of sexually assaulting her in 2004.
Tyson said that Fairfax, now the number-two leader in Virginia, forced her to perform oral sex in 2004.
The president lied about abortion in the State of the Union.
She represents a repudiation of the idea that Democrats must downplay “identity” to appeal to the country at large.
The development deepens the troubles of the Democratic Party in the state, following the crisis over Governor Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo.
The development deepens the troubles of the Democratic Party in the state, following the crisis over Governor Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo.
Attorney General Mark Herring, like Gov. Ralph Northam, said he dressed in blackface years ago. And a woman came forward to describe being sexually assaulted by the lieutenant governor.
The plan to end transmission of the virus in the United States by 2030, outlined in the president’s State of the Union address, will focus on 48 counties where about half of new infections occur.
Gov. Ralph Northam was said to be planning to hire a private investigator to help clear his name, as his relationship with his lieutenant governor is strained.
The Virginia governor was said to be planning to hire a private investigator to help clear his name, as his relationship with his lieutenant governor is strained.
White former students say some of the offensive images were once acceptable, but their black classmates recall racially divided times when their presence was invisible.
A police officer acted reasonably when he shot and killed Emantic F. Bradford Jr. seconds after he heard gunfire, the state attorney general said.
Regulatory and market pressures are creating a tough operating environment for many vendors. Oversaturation and changing culinary tastes are also concerns.
Nashville Ballet’s “Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux,” started as poetry. A creative team that includes Rhiannon Giddens is bringing it to the stage.
As the ranks of American hunters dwindle, millennials like the chef Wade Truong are taking up the tradition, seeking a direct connection to what they eat.
Here’s how lawmakers can accelerate the clean-energy economy.
Major federal corruption investigations have brought dark clouds to Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta and Philadelphia.
Given new veto power over the tax breaks the state lavishes on industry, local officials are starting to say their budget needs come first. Business leaders are aghast.
Big League Politics, an obscure right-wing publication, has put both Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on the defensive.
Stacey Abrams will be the first black woman and the first nonsitting public official to deliver the rebuttal. Here’s what you need to know about her.
Readers discuss whether mistakes of the past should be forgiven.
Ms. Abrams, who attracted wide attention in her narrow loss for Georgia governor and will speak after the State of the Union, is being courted by the party to challenge Senator David Perdue in 2020.
The improvements made by the country’s biggest preschool program offer a story of bipartisan progress at odds with its polarizing time.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s fate hung in the balance on Monday as legislators returned to session not knowing who would be governor by the end of the day.
As a racist yearbook photo and claims of sexual assault plunged the capitol deeper into turmoil, the state’s lieutenant governor suggested the governor might be trying to sabotage him.
Aides to Fairfax, a Democrat who has drawn national attention as Gov. Ralph Northam considers resigning over past racist behavior, said the allegation was false and unsubstantiated.
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Thousands of Robert Frank’s unpublished photographs taken during and after his journeys that led to “The Americans” have never been seen before by wide audiences.
For many in Mr. Northam’s state, grappling with the fallout over the picture is as complicated as Virginia’s tragic racial history.
Mr. Northam moonwalked, dressed as Michael Jackson, for a 1980s dance contest. He wore a minstrel’s blackface, but showed no sense of history and little shame.
In the Year of Offense, the N.F.L.'s championship game didn't have much. But in the end, Rob Gronkowski was there to catch passes from Tom Brady and the Patriots did it again.
Gov. Ralph Northam’s turmoil is erupting at a pivotal moment for his state’s Democrats, who are on the brink of consolidating power.
Mr. Northam, who denies appearing in a decades-old racist photograph, is teetering precariously on the top rung of a political ladder that he ascended in just 10 years.
In a news conference, Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia said he did not appear in the decades-old yearbook photo and would not accept his party’s calls to resign. He did admit to darkening his face on another occasion in the 1980s.
If Gov. Ralph Northam accedes to his party’s calls to resign, Mr. Fairfax would become the second African-American governor in the state’s history.
The terminal was evacuated after the unidentified man jumped, causing passengers to flee unscreened into restricted areas.
St. Louis is angry the Rams left. New Orleans thinks the Saints got cheated. Los Angeles has the Rams, but hey, LeBron is back. Atlanta is the conflicted host.
Mr. Northam denied that he appeared in Ku Klux Klan robes or in blackface in a yearbook photo, but revealed that he darkened his face for a costume on another occasion in the 1980s.
The White House insists that only “good genes” and a clear powder are behind President Trump’s glow, but mysteries about his grooming routine abound.
The law, requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was essentially identical to one in Texas that the justices struck down in 2016.
A photograph from what appears to be the 1984 yearbook page of Ralph Northam shows a person dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member and another wearing blackface.
Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia, said he was “deeply sorry” for the decision to appear in the photo but resisted calls for his resignation.
Gene Steratore, a former N.F.L. referee, is the CBS rules analyst, which just might be a harder job than making calls on the field. Really.
No, Democrats aren’t trying to legalize infanticide.
Two historically black neighborhoods lie in the shadow of the Atlanta stadium hosting this year’s Super Bowl, but the riches its creation represents? Just out of reach.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote that a push in New York and other states to expand abortion rights was a “call to action for all Americans.”
Part artist, part businessman and all charisma, Hair started a movement that would allow African-American artists to make a living in the South.
In his Palm Beach cocoon, President Trump is in his most comfortable mode, friends and allies say: playing the host in front of an adoring crowd.
Mr. Bradley’s work on six-string bass and guitar was featured on records by Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Loretta Lynn and numerous others.
If the justices fail to intervene in our case, the future of Roe v. Wade will be in enormous jeopardy.
He began his academic work with a seminal account of the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager in Georgia who was convicted of murder.
A narrow, 150-foot-long tunnel discovered on Tuesday was directed toward a Chase bank near Miami. The F.B.I. called it an “attempted bank burglary.”
Mr. Paul had filed a lawsuit against a longtime neighbor who tackled him after a lawn care dispute in 2017.
With issues of race percolating in the N.F.L., several players reflect on Martin Luther King Jr. and his protest movement.
A 1928 house in Los Angeles; a midcentury home in Charlottesville, Va.; and a modernist house in Austin, Tex.
A 1928 house in Los Angeles, a midcentury home in Charlottesville and a modernist house in Austin.
The post-truth era has found its post-truth sport.
The city’s restaurant scene has evolved since the last Super Bowl here. So look beyond downtown, enjoy the diversity and don’t forget breakfast.
Ms. Harris has appeal for black voters. But she also faces challenges — skepticism about her background as a prosecutor, overcoming sexism and competing in a crowded primary field.
The making of Sheila Pree Bright’s photo-mural of black women who had lost their sons gave a group of mothers a chance to tell their stories.
In Selma, Ala., in 1965, he saw a fellow minister, James Reeb, take a fatal blow to the head, a murder with national consequences.
The experimental-music event, entering its 10th year in Knoxville, Tenn., will host 20 separate ECM-related performances at the 2019 festival in March.
Caleb Hanna, one of the youngest state legislators in the country, is a black man raised in a white family who represents a predominantly white district in West Virginia.
Will the dawn raid on the Prince of Darkness shine a light on the Trump campaign’s original sin?