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When Misty Copeland took her final bow with American Ballet Theatre on October 22, 2025, people could watch from two theatres at Lincoln Center. The company’s gala was at the David H. Koch Theater. At...
Sixty-six days passed between the public release of SARS-CoV-2’s genetic sequence and the start of the first clinical trial of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire was among the...
At a Senate Banking Committee hearing in February 2026, Angela Alsobrooks put a direct question to four federal banking regulators: should banks help enforce immigration law? She asked those who...
In 2015, Dr. Joy Buolamwini was working on an art project at MIT when facial-analysis software failed to detect her face. She put on a white mask. The software detected it. That incident stayed with...
On March 21, 2023, people raced across New York looking for a pair of Nike Air Max 95s. The shoes were part of a Corteiz release, the London streetwear label founded by Clint Ogbenna, whose social...
For nine months, Marshmallow’s founders worked from the lounge of a Virgin Active gym. British-Jamaican identical twins Oliver and Alexander Kent-Braham and software engineer David Goaté were trying...
In 2022, Boston University’s Stone Gallery put Cey Adams’s subway graffiti photographs beside Def Jam album covers he helped design. The room made a career visible in one glance: lettering first made...
Dow’s 2025 results left Karen S. Carter with a difficult first assignment as CEO: the company made $40 billion in sales and still lost $2.4 billion. She took over on July 1. Dow has about 34,600...
For years, lists detailing Black cultural influence followed a predictable formula, grouping together musicians, actors, athletes, and billionaires alongside a politician or two to create a static...