Illustration: Simon Abranowicz Illustration: Simon Abranowicz The street lieutenant fidgeting in a Ciudad Juárez pizza parlor deals drugs for Barrio Azteca, a gang that emerged from Texas prisons in the 1980s to control a chunk of illegal shipments from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest. Think No…

Eleven months after Eric Garner's death, his grave is covered by a lush patch of grass in Union County, N.J. His mother, Gwen Carr, is pulling together money for a headstone. Credit... Mark Kauzlarich/The New York Times After the fatal confrontation with the police on Staten Island was captured on…

When Baltimore’s young prosecutor Marilyn Mosby filed charges against police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, she leaped onto the national stage—as heroine and lightning rod. It was 21 minutes that would change her life and send ripples of both outrage and relief across the country. On the…

Summer Love transcript 0:00/2:00 -2:00 transcript Love and Roller Coasters Lisa Guerrera and Rich O’Flanagan both speak the language of roller coasters, an inside joke that brings sweet memories of their romance’s earliest beginnings. Lisa Guerrera and Rich O’Flanagan both speak the language of…

Op-Ed Contributor Why Women Apologize and Should Stop Credit... Emily Flake EVERYONE knows what dirt tastes like. Last week, I ordered a salad at a restaurant and found myself crunching on a shoddily washed leaf. I took a few more sandy bites before explaining the situation to my waiter, apologizing…

The Confederate flag should not come down because it is offensive to African Americans. The Confederate flag should come down because it is embarrassing to all Americans.

Does this scenario sound familiar? You're browsing Facebook and come across a post from a friend complaining that they can't sleep. You notice they posted it at 1 a.m. "Maybe stop staring at a screen, dummy," you think. Then you realize it's 2 a.m., you're reading Facebook from a smartphone in bed,…

Coca-Cola’s VitaminWater is being marketed as a healthy, hydrating drink. The company claims that the drinks prevent chronic diseases, reduce the risks of eye diseases, promotes healthy joints, and supports optimal immune function. However, nothing could be further from the truth. This is what John…

“If we do nothing, in the next 50 years it will be a completely different world, something that humanity has never experienced,”

Ask New Yorkers about Verizon FiOS, and you'll get one of two answers. If they are one of the lucky people who have access, they'll swoon about its fantastic speeds. If not, you'll hear tales of frustration about fruitlessly waiting years for FiOS to make it to their doorsteps. It wasn't supposed to…

Stephen Curry during Game 4 of the 2015 N.B.A. finals on June 11 in Cleveland. Stephen Curry is a delirious and incorrigible show-off: He not only throws no-look passes, he also shoots no-look 3-pointers . He’s a boy wonder: See him for the first time on television and you might mistake him for a…

Coming Home Album cover When Leon Bridges sings, he often raises his arms in a chest-opening gesture that might resolve in a benediction or a finger snap. Like the music the 25-year-old Fort Worth soul sensation has carefully crafted for his debut, his signature move seems simple, but hold many…

O n a clear day, you can see the Staples Center from Bill Withers ’ house, which sits high in the hills above West Hollywood. Today, in about two hours, the Los Angeles basketball arena will host the Grammy Awards; every once in a while, a limo will rush through Withers’ neighborhood, on its way to…

Opinion Guess Who Doesn’t Fit In at Work Credit... Mark Todd ACROSS cultures and industries, managers strongly prize “cultural fit” — the idea that the best employees are like-minded. One recent survey found that more than 80 percent of employers worldwide named cultural fit as a top hiring…

“Kalief Browder, 1993–2015,” by Jennifer Gonnerman (June 7th) Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY ZACH GROSS Last fall, I wrote about a young man named Kalief Browder , who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. He had been arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a…

Johnetta Elzie (left) and DeRay Mckesson at MoKaBe’s Coffeehouse in St. Louis. Credit... Christaan Felber for The New York Times How a group of black social media activists built the nation’s first 21st-century civil rights movement. Johnetta Elzie (left) and DeRay Mckesson at MoKaBe’s Coffeehouse…

State of the Art Credit... Stuart Goldenberg In the last few weeks, my two children, ages 4 and 2, have suddenly become obsessed with Simon and Garfunkel. At their insistence, the 1960s folk duo is the only music we listen to during car rides. My son, the older child, can recite several lines of…

"We are beyond excited about the Women's World Cup. It's one of the most amazing moments in sports and women get to take center stage. For us, the World Cup is all about potential and inspiration," McIlroy told BuzzFeed News. "We wanted to look forward to the next generation of female footballers…

E ver feel like you can’t turn your brain off? Worried about how to stop worrying? We all deal with this when life gets challenging. There is a way to overcome worry that doesn’t involve alcohol or a

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Coffee has ingrained itself in the mechanisms of so many people's early morning routines. There is something romantic about brewing a carafe, or holding a freshly bought cup close, first thing. There is also something practical about it: Sipping piping hot caffeine as soon as possible prepares us…

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Dave Goldberg and his wife at a tech conference in 2013. Both often left their offices at 5:30 to eat dinner with their children. Even as a high school student, Dave Goldberg was urging female classmates to speak up. As a young dot-com executive, he had one girlfriend after another, but fell hard…

I want to be totally different. I am totally different from everybody else already, so I just have to be myself. ACTION BRONSON The legend. That’s what old-timey spies called it—your backstory, who you are, what you’re all about. For a rapper, the legend is everything: a character to play, a…

“I imagine that someday I may have a story written about my life and it would be good to have a detailed account of it.” —home/frosty/documents/journal/2012/q1/january/week1 The postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini…

The late 1930s image by Eliot Elisofon shows Zack Brown taking a picture of two dapper African-American men on a Harlem street. It challenged the then-dominant view of black urban life, focusing on dignity instead of suffering, self-possession instead of defeat, happiness instead of sorrow. Mr.…

Think of it as a product that gets made before a majority of users are even in the market for it Jay Rosen Jun 1, 2015 · Unlisted With a sample size of one, David Weinberger’s clever survey, ‘Who does a better interview — a pro at CNN or the crowd from Reddit?’ is just the provocation I need to…

Meek Mill leans forward into the glow of his computer screen, his expression unreadable behind a pair of gold sunglasses. It’s April, well after two in the morning, and we’re packed into a narrow recording studio in Burbank, California, the same studio where the 28-year-old rapper from Philadelphia…

"Stop interrupting me." "I just said that." "No explanation needed." In fifth grade, I won the school courtesy prize. In other words, I won an award for being polite. My brother, on the other hand, was considered the class comedian. We were very typically socialized as a "young lady" and a "boy…

As my tenure as president of Spelman College comes to a close, I am often asked, “What is your legacy?” While that is a question better answered by others, in response, one could point to a new residence hall like the recently named Beverly Daniel Tatum Suites (an honor bestowed by the Board of…

Back in 2011, Tavi Gevinson was a mere 14-year-old girl being a legend and killing it on the internet. Around that same time, a time when street-style blog The Sartorialist was still a vaguely relevant thing, Scott Schuman gave an interview to online magazine The Talks in which he revealed himself…

Kavi Ohri and Cornelia Adams moved to Manhattan after deciding Dumbo, Brooklyn, had become what Ms. Adams describes as “a circus.” Credit... Robert Wright for The New York Times Five years ago, Eric Kabakoff and Christina Lewandowski bought a one-bedroom in a new condominium in Gowanus, Brooklyn,…

My father, a bookish black man old enough to be my grandfather, grew up in Texas while it was still a segregated state. As soon as he could, he got himself far enough away from there to cover the walls of his study with photographs of his travels to destinations as exotic as Poland and Mali. As far…

"We don't control a lot of this stuff. We sort of make our best choices, and we'll—we'll catch up." The end came shortly before 9 p.m. on a nippy spring Saturday night. We'd all seen it coming for years, especially after the heart-attack-like shock of the Iraq War years in the early 2000s, when…

Dell Glover manufactured CDs for a living, but he began to wonder: if the MP3 was just as good, why bother with the CD? Photograph by Jehad Nga One Saturday in 1994, Bennie Lydell Glover, a temporary employee at the PolyGram compact-disk manufacturing plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina, went to…

Like many concert promoters, Sascha Guttfreund, 25, has a gift for managing egos. His job is catering to young rappers, mostly — J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Big Sean, Chance the Rapper; stars of the genre still hurtling toward a peak — but his schmooze mode doesn’t have an off switch. In mid-March,…