Ten days in May. Twenty-four churches around New York City. Nearly 20,000 coronavirus tests. Over the past few weeks, churches serving communities of color have been transformed overnight into mini-clinics offering free coronavirus tests to all comers. The initiative, a partnership of the churches, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s office and Northwell Health, is an effort…
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As protests over police brutality swept the country in recent weeks and major retailers posted messages of solidarity with black Americans on social media, Aurora James, a creative director in Brooklyn, asked herself if she actually felt that those brands were standing with her as a black woman and business owner. “The answer was I…
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Here’s what you need to know: ImageLuke Phillips, an employee at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel on Sunday. The resort reopened this month, even as Florida saw persistent growth in coronavirus cases.Credit…Josh Ritchie for The New York Times KEY DATA OF THE DAY Cases surpass 2 million in the U.S., with new hot spots emerging.…
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Just Eat Takeaway, a European food delivery service, said on Wednesday that it was in advanced talks to buy Grubhub, a deal that would give it a foothold in the United States. The proposed deal would be an all-stock transaction, Just Eat Takeaway said in a statement. Its stock fell about 13…
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It’s hot outside. Which means summer is coming. Which means sweet corn is ripening somewhere not too far from Brooklyn, and in a few weeks, I’ll get to buy some. So I finally forced myself to use up the last of my summer 2019 corn kernels, the ones I carefully sliced off the cob last…
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Welcome. We’re still working from home, those of us with work, anyway, those of us who can afford to be home, those who don’t have to commute to essential jobs as the pandemic continues on its silent path. But sometime over the course of the last couple of weeks — as states began slowly to…
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As multinational corporations face a reckoning, thousands of American teenagers are playfully posturing as retail stores and popular household brands on TikTok. This universe of faux brand accounts makes up just a sliver of what is known on the platform as Elite TikTok, or Alt TikTok. It is not marked by the attractive dancing young…
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As protests against police brutality have swept the country, in some cases leading to additional police aggression, toward demonstrators, a loosely organized group of trained volunteers has been on call to intervene and treat injuries. Street medics, who may be medical professionals or first aid practitioners with only basic training, bandage cuts and rubber bullet…
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For most of my life, I have had a minor but chronic condition: My face, when it is at ease, looks not just serious but mean. There are women who will recognize this problem, particularly those who — around this time of the year, as the sun comes out and more of us are outside…
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We want to hear about black travelers’ experiences of taking a road trip around America. See the form at the end of the article. If there’s one thing the people behind car and R.V. companies, state tourism boards, national and state parks and hotels agree on right now, it’s that the summer of 2020 will…
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