A profile of a new icon.

All of Janicza Bravo’s previous movies were playing in the place where humor and trauma meet. Zola was a natural fit.

My dad was a riddle to me, even more so after he disappeared. For a long time, who he was—and by extension who I was—seemed to be a puzzle I would never solve.

The city is beating the pandemic. Can it also recover from decades of division and neglect?

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.

New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.

He was a shining star of a tight-knit group of rising Black male models in London. Why did he die at the hands of another model?

After 9/11, U.S. authorities used informants to secure hundreds of terror convictions. But did they help create plots where none existed?

A year of isolation made me consider all the casual, unwanted touch women endure — and why it’s so hard to refuse it.

Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

When people ask what I like so much about being from the Midwest, I get to tell them: I know the architecture of the wind. I know the violence it blows in and out. I like to keep my survival as simple as I can.

Covid-19 has cemented the e-commerce giant’s hold on the economy — but it has also spurred employees all around the country to organize.

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

Thousands of patients report lingering symptoms. Can research into another mysterious syndrome help?

Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.