Starbucks said on Friday that employees would be allowed to wear Black Lives Matter shirts and pins, a sudden reversal of a company policy that had banned the phrase because it could “amplify divisiveness.” Amid social media backlash to a policy, the coffee chain also declared that it would provide 250,000 Starbucks-branded Black Lives Matter…
ImageFan at the opening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in 2010 in Harrisonburg, Va.Credit…Traci White/Daily News-Record, via Associated Press When J.K. Rowling was accused of transphobia about two years ago for “liking” a tweet that referred to transgender women as “men in dresses,” much of the Harry Potter fandom tried to give their…
People around the globe shell out billions of dollars each year on professionally manufactured games: According to a recent study, spending worldwide on playing cards and board games is expected to reach nearly $22 billion by the year 2025. But the truth is that you can turn anything into a game — even a newspaper!…
Name: Philip Post Age: 24 Hometown: Norwalk, Conn. Now lives: In a three-bedroom apartment in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn that he shares with two artists. Claim to fame: Mr. Post, who is also known as Prince Philippe, is the designer, painter and artist behind Dertbag, a Connecticut street wear brand that has been spotted…
Send questions about the office, money, careers and work-life balance to workfriend@nytimes.com. Include your name and location, or a request to remain anonymous. Letters may be edited. On Taking a Stand I work at The New York Times. On June 3, the Opinion section ran an Op-Ed by Senator Tom Cotton that I found deeply…
Gay bars, drag shows, concerts, performances, galleries — and, of course, Pride marches. These are among the places and spaces that have long fostered camaraderie and community among L.G.B.T.Q. people. Connections so often centered on in-person events, particularly in urban areas. But this year is not like most years, not by any stretch. In the…
At a piano bar in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, just before night life shut down across the city, a 71-year-old former model named Shailah Edmonds performed her one-woman cabaret show to a two-drink-minimum crowd. Ms. Edmonds, who stands 6-foot-2 in heels, wore a chiffon dress and a bejeweled head wrap as she told…
Civil rights movements were good for Audrey Gelman, a founder of the upscale women-only club and co-working space the Wing, until they weren’t. She adroitly navigated the cultural tide of feminism, female empowerment and the #MeToo movement, transforming herself from a publicist to a veritable power broker. Ms. Gelman, 33, resigned Thursday. Shortly after she…
ImageProtesters throwing the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston into a harbor last Sunday.Credit…Ben Birchall/Press Association, via Associated Press Confederate statues and statues of other historical figures, including slave traders and Christopher Columbus, are being toppled throughout the U.S. and around the world this week — an outgrowth of weeks of protests over entrenched…
Imagine you’re doing an activity that’s full of restrictions and limitations. Is it fun? Are you enjoying this activity? Did you imagine you were … playing a game? Probably not. Surprisingly, games — things synonymous with play, freedom and joy — depend on what I’ve described: a series of rules and limitations. So why do…