For years, Symone — the drag queen persona created by Reggie Gavin — has been collecting folders of memorable looks, with hundreds of references to Black women. There are photographs from Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar of Lil’ Kim, Whitney Houston, Grace Jones, Diana Ross, Tina Turner and Rihanna. She started storing the images on the…
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The actor and comedian Niecy Nash and the musician Jessica Betts married Aug. 29, 2020, at the peak of the pandemic, in an intimate ceremony at their home in Ventura County, Calif. “We only had 24 guests,” noted Ms. Nash, 51, the Emmy winner who many fans may recognize from her longstanding role as Deputy…
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Who lost what, exactly, when Naomi Osaka announced the she wouldn’t participate in news conferences at the French Open last week, citing her mental health? The fans lost a few minutes of potentially vulnerable but generally formal interviews with Ms. Osaka. Ms. Osaka was unburdened of what she felt was an irrelevant obligation, but also…
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Ganga Stone, who survived on odd jobs in Manhattan until she discovered that her life’s mission was to bring free homemade meals to bedridden AIDS patients on her bicycle, then expanded her volunteer corps of cooks and couriers into an enduring organization called God’s Love We Deliver, died on Wednesday in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She…
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With summer approaching and skinny jeans out of fashion, what is the status of tucking shirts into other varieties of jeans? Is there a rule of thumb for which shirts need to be tucked into what jeans and when? — Yael, Dix Hills, N.Y. First of all, I wouldn’t say skinny jeans are out of…
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Many had pinned their hopes on the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan, which would provide $400 billion to improve home and community-based care. But as the president and Republicans vie over the proposal’s size and scope, it’s unclear whether that part will survive. Parents, meanwhile, continue to shoulder an unrelenting burden, increasingly alone. The Pandemic Deepens…
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The researchers also tallied Covid-19 hospitalizations among children ages 12 to 17 from March 1, 2020, to April 24, 2021. The data came from Covid-Net, a population-based surveillance system in 14 states, covering about 10 percent of Americans. Updated June 4, 2021, 4:29 p.m. ET The number of adolescents hospitalized with Covid-19 declined in January…
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When Kimberlee Stevenson picked up a copy of “Until I Saw Your Smile” by the romance writer J.J. Murray in 2016, she had no idea that she would one day become the subject of one of his books. Mr. Murray accepted her Facebook friend request, and after quietly following her life through her posts, he…
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Recipes for microwave lemon curd have been around since the 1980s. But it took an Instagram post in 2021 to get me to try it. Actually, it was many posts, most of them from the chef David Chang. A committed microwave enthusiast, he didn’t make curd, but he did demonstrate other dishes — like kimchi…
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Growing up Jewish in the segregated South impressed upon Ms. Cole “life’s inequities and their consequences,” her son said. After two years at the University of Georgia, she transferred to Boston University, earning a degree in sociology in 1970. Ms. Cole taught at the Fernald State School for people with developmental disabilities in Waltham, Mass.,…
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