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In 1970, Faith Ringgold made her first big sale. Chase Manhattan Bank almost bought “Flag for the Moon,” a painting that reminded them of a Jasper Johns — until they realized these stars and stripes were letters spelling a violent racial slur. So instead they picked “The American Spectrum” (1969), a row of abstract faces […]
The city of Philadelphia has agreed to settle a wrongful-death suit filed by the family of a Black man whose fatal shooting by the police last year was recorded on video and prompted widespread protests. The man, Walter Wallace Jr., 27, had mental health issues and was holding a knife when he was shot by […]
TALLADEGA, Ala. — The hard part wasn’t dodging his way around a crash and then driving to the front of the field at Talladega Superspeedway. That was just instinct for Bubba Wallace. The challenge was the 45 minutes after Wallace took the lead, when the sky opened and he anxiously sat in the rain — […]
Bubba Wallace on Monday became just the second Black driver in the history of NASCAR to win a race at its highest level of competition, driving to victory in a rain-shortened YellaWood 500 at Talladega Superspeedway. With his first Cup Series win, Wallace joins Wendell Scott as the only Black drivers to accomplish the feat; […]
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