The three skulls were unlike hundreds of others in the 16th-century mass grave uncovered at the San José de los Naturales Royal Hospital in Mexico City. Their front teeth were…

"The Lovebirds" couldn't be any cuter, unless you count the stars breaking down one of their scenes. Netflix released a video over the weekend of Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae giving a shot-by-shot…

For more than 40 years, Chuck Christian did not call himself a victim because he did not think he was one. Then, in February, an old teammate called. Remember Dr.…

NAIROBI(NYT NEWS SERVICE).- For novelist Maaza Mengiste, the coronavirus lockdowns and stay-at-home measures that have taken hold around the world bring back the sense of exile she felt when she and…

When you get right down to it, there are really only two kinds of New Orleans-set movies. There are those that truly get the city, that carry the New Orleans…

Hundreds of thousands of African-American men enlisted and fought for a nation that saw them as second-class citizens. They deserve our thanks. While serving as a sentry with French forces in…

I had loaned my body to America. That’s what the Navy doctor said, as he poked and prodded me in his office during my separation physical. After eight years in…

Acclaimed historian Prof. Deborah Lipstadt is leading a fight to lose the hyphen from anti-Semitism, saying its presence ‘completely distorts the meaning of the word’ William Shakespeare famously asked “What’s…

THIS ARTICLE IS A COLLABORATION, WITH REPORTING BYRobert Gebeloff, Danielle Ivory, Matt Richtel, Mitch Smith and Karen Yourish of The New York Times; Scott Dance of The Baltimore Sun; Jackie…

Stereotypes about black men as hypersexual and uniquely violent means that, when they are abused, they regularly face scorn and disbelief. An important lesson of the #MeToo movement has been…