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  • One Drop, but Many Views on Race

    In the 2010 census — when respondents could check more than one racial group — President Obama, the son of a black African father and a white mother, checked a single box: “Black, African-American or Negro.” Mr. Obama himself was unequivocal about it: “I self-identify as African-American — that’s how I am treated and that’s…

  • Poll Finds Hope Is Running High for Next Mayor of New York City

    Poll Finds Hope Is Running High for Next Mayor of New York City The New York Times 2013-12-13 Kate Taylor and Dalia Sussman With Bill de Blasio’s inauguration less than a month away, New Yorkers are highly optimistic about his mayoralty — but they remain skeptical that he can achieve major changes on some of…

  • Lenny Kravitz’s Halfway Mark

    Lenny Kravitz’s Halfway Mark The New York Times 2013-12-06 Amy Chozick, National Political Reporter You grew up between the Upper East Side and Bed-Stuy. Which neighborhood did you feel more comfortable in? Well, after I was in first grade, Monday through Friday was Upper East Side going to P.S. 6, and Friday night through Sunday…

  • Obama’s Path Was Shaped by Mandela’s Story

    Obama’s Path Was Shaped by Mandela’s Story The New York Times 2013-12-05 Michael D. Shear WASHINGTON — Without Nelson Mandela, there might never have been a President Obama. That is the strong impression conveyed from Mr. Obama, whose political and personal bonds to Mr. Mandela, the former South African president, transcended their single face-to-face meeting,…

  • Families

    Families The New York Times 2013-11-25 Natalie Angier American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling. In this special issue of Science Times, NATALIE ANGIER takes stock of our changing definition of family. Read the entire article here.

  • 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians

    24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians The New York Times 2013-11-20 Nicholas Wade The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has turned out to hold two surprises for anthropologists. The first is that the boy’s DNA matches that of Western…

  • Many Black New Yorkers Are Seeing de Blasio’s Victory as Their Own

    Many Black New Yorkers Are Seeing de Blasio’s Victory as Their Own The New York Times 2013-11-10 Michael M. Grynbaum Reporting was contributed by Michael Barbaro, Kia Gregory, Winnie Hu, Sarah Maslin Nir, Julie Turkewitz and Vivian Yee. A black janitor in Brooklyn almost shouted out the name when asked about his vote in the…

  • De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor

    De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor The New York Times 2013-11-05 Michael Barbaro David W. Chen, City Hall Bureau Chief Bill de Blasio hugged his son, Dante, at an election night party on Tuesday. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Bill de Blasio, who transformed himself from a little-known occupant of an obscure…

  • Diverse Neighborhood Has Mixed Enthusiasm About New York City Mayor’s Race

    Diverse Neighborhood Has Mixed Enthusiasm About New York City Mayor’s Race The New York Times 2013-11-03 Cara Buckley The last presidential candidate Steve Waldman voted for was Hubert H. Humphrey. The last mayor he cast a ballot for was Edward I. Koch. And he’ll be darned if he is going to break his nonvoting streak…

  • Black History’s Missing Chapters: ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,’ on PBS

    Black History’s Missing Chapters: ‘The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,’ on PBS The New York Times 2013-10-18   Felicia R. Lee The television mini-series “Roots,” about the slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants, is a classic, inspired by real lives and real history. But it is a truism among historians that young people do…