Name: Amiri Nash Age: 20 Hometown: Washington, D.C. Now Lives: Mr. Nash lives on-campus at Brown University in the Harambee House, a residence for Black students. Claim to Fame: Mr. Nash, a sophomore at Brown, is a journalist, activist and poet who was named Washington’s Youth Poet Laureate in 2021. He was part of a…
I let her. I never corrected her when she referred to me as her daughter; I rarely corrected her when she called me the wrong name. She would buy me tight fitting V-neck shirts, and I would smile. Neither of us wanted to, or could, acknowledge how I was growing into someone who wasn’t her…
Douglas Alan Lockwood can pinpoint the exact moment something shifted in his perception of Linda Marie Cadranel Murphy. It was July 2020 and, apropos of the times, they were in a Zoom meeting. Ms. Murphy, 74, was describing a man with whom she had gone on a series of walks. He only spoke about himself…
Mosopefoluwa Ogundipe and Iyanuoluwa Imoru are from the same Nigerian state, Ondo, the same local government area, Akoko North-East, and the same Yoruba tribe. But it wasn’t until they were halfway around the world that their paths finally crossed. Mr. Ogundipe, 28, who goes by Sope, and Ms. Imoru, 29, known as Iyanu, met in…
Once it finally happened, their second date, on Valentine’s Day in 2018, was just as lively as the first. “Both of us realized we are both very intense, very intentional,” Mr. Chiu said. “We share the same values,” Dr. Patel said, and “are very family-oriented.” Before the spring of 2018 had ended, they were in…
Matthew Thomas McConkey was at home watching the movie “Death Becomes Her” when he first spotted Michael Grassi on the dating app Grindr. “I had been showing pictures to Erin, my roommate,” he said, “and I stopped at him and I literally said, ‘He’s going to be my boyfriend.’” It was November 2013, and Mr.…
When Mina Im was introduced by a mutual friend to Shaheen Butt at a St. Louis bar on Thanksgiving Eve in 2008, she had an immediate flashback. “My cousin had a crush on him” in middle school, she said, “and would always talk about him.” Ms. Im recalled being immediately drawn to Mr. Butt and…
When Hannah Margaret Allen and Grant Joseph Schumacher met for drinks on June 7, 2019, it was his first time going on a date with someone he had met online. Ms. Allen, by her approximation, had done so 50 times by then. But it was Ms. Allen who instigated their initial conversation on Tinder, just…
Courtesy Blame it on Doja Cat’s “Bitch, I’m a cow,” or give credit to queen Dolly Parton herself, but western-inspired style is having a major moment again. Like cottagecore and coconut girls, ranch-hand chic is another so-called aesthetic made popular on TikTok and Instagram. (The latest is “coastal grandmother,” which, same.) Whether you’re jumping on…
Patricia de Melo MoreiraGetty Images There are film festivals, and then there’s Cannes. Far away from the snowy streets of Park City and the bustling city of Toronto, it is, without a doubt, the most glamorous ode to cinema in the world. This year’s 75th iteration is already well underway, and recently honored Tom Cruise…