New York Times articles
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The Prayer Lives of Black Men
I owe a friend of mine an apology. We were talking the day after Frances Tiafoe won that quarterfinal match that he had all but lost. Alex Michelsen won the first two sets, was up a break and served for it…and promptly fell all the way apart. A couple
Love Don’t Love Nobody
A friend of mine owns and operates his own coffee shop in Harlem. (If you seriously like coffee, and not just coffee-flavored drinks, DM me later and I’ll point you in his direction.) We’ve known each other for a good long while now. He’s a Giants
Playing Nice, and Maybe Missing Your Slam
My brother is six feet, five inches tall. He’s a big guy. He has spent much of his career in corporate America, working for a Fortune 500 company. He hasn’t talked about it much, but every now and then he’ll recall some instance at work where he
Boop, boop a-doop
West 44th Street in Manhattan is having a moment. A brown girl moment. Within the half block of Eighth Avenue and Schubert Alley, as of this writing, Audra McDonald is packing them into the Majestic Theater in a revival of “Gypsy;” Nicole Scherzinger is starring in a revival of “Sunset