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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Days after unusual clusters of the rare monkeypox virus emerged in Europe, New York City health authorities announced on Thursday that they were investigating a possible case of the rare disease. The authorities said little about the patient, who is currently in isolation at Bellevue Hospital, according to a statement from the city health department.…
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