When Greg Glassman resigned earlier this month as chief executive of CrossFit, Inc., excoriated for comments about George Floyd’s death on Twitter and in a Zoom meeting, people who have worked there were surprised that his downfall was tied to accusations of racism. They had assumed that the reason would be routine and rampant sexual…
The National Institutes of Health said Saturday that it had stopped two clinical trials of hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug that President Trump promoted to treat and prevent the coronavirus, one because the drug was unlikely to be effective and the other because not enough patients signed up to participate. The agency halted a trial that…
Here’s what you need to know: ImageWalking toward the ocean in Delray Beach, Fla., on Wednesday.Credit…Saul Martinez for The New York Times U.S. cases surge toward May’s high, with clusters among young people linked to bars and fraternity parties. The United States reported more than 30,000 new infections on Friday, its highest total since May…
Memorial Day Weekend was always a blowout for Amseshem Foluké, a seasonal nutcracker seller. For close to 15 years, he has been serving nutcrackers — bootleg cocktails in flavors like rum punch and mango Patron — out of coolers to summer crowds all over the city. “Usually, I can get $500 if I stand in…
Steaming is considered one of the strongest methods of cooking vegetables. Again, this way, vegetables get cooked too easily. For steaming vegetables, you need not use any kitchen tool and you can finish your cooking in some moments only. So, steaming vegetables doesn’t involve any kind of complicated method. People eat steamed vegetables along with…
The week’s most popular dishes include Jerrelle Guy’s strawberry spoon cake (above), Lidey Heuck’s one-pot smoky fish and Yewande Komolafe’s lentil and orzo stew. Find more recipes in the collection below.
In a normal summer, having friends over for a swim is one of the easy joys for people fortunate enough to have a backyard pool. Now, it can feel fraught, even as water-lovers everywhere are desperate for aquatic relief with the closure of many public pools. But experts say it is possible to share your…
Sydney Baloue (@sydneybaloue) is a producer on the HBO Max show “Legendary” and a member of The House of Xtravaganza. He is working on a book chronicling the history and evolution of New York City’s ballroom scene. Video transcript Back transcript ‘Voguing Has Always Been a Protest’ The ballroom community has vogued its way through…
Protesters have returned to the Stonewall Inn again and again in recent weeks to demand an end to police brutality, raising their fists, taking a knee and holding moments of silence on the same ground where a riot in 1969 helped spark the modern gay rights movement. But public health restrictions have kept the Greenwich…
No book can provide a full understanding of the complex pain and enduring injustice that is the recent wave of countrywide protests. But books can provide context and texture, and memoirs and sociology texts by black writers have been flying off the shelves. So have history books. And history is important here: While the protests…