by October Gallery
WHEN ELECTION officials in North Carolina audited the 2016 vote, they found 441 ballots had been cast by felons on probation or parole who voted despite a state law barring them…
CHATSWORTH, Ga. — Stacey Abrams’s Republican opponent in the Georgia governor’s race is fond of calling her an “out-of-touch radical liberal.” But when Ms. Abrams was beginning her long run…
Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem around 125th Street is now lined with artisanal French restaurants, wood-fired pizza joints and brunch places serving kale salad. A new Whole Foods supermarket shines…
The factoid you probably remember about women’s equal pay with respect to men’s is that women, on average, make about 80 cents to every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men.…
HARTLAND, Wis. — Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota was soundly defeated Tuesday in his bid to reclaim the Republican nomination for governor, a remarkable upset that demonstrated President Trump’s…
On Tuesday, Joyce Mayne bought her first house, a birthday present to herself. Mayne’s birthday is today. She is 75. “I wondered if I was crazy, 75 years old and…
If the Great Migration could be condensed into a single personal narrative, it might be Aretha Franklin’s. Born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee, to a traveling, womanizing preacher and a…
Aretha Franklin, the legendary Queen of Soul, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit, the AP reports. While the details of her death have not yet been reported, Franklin…
After a distinguished career as a historian and Princeton professor, Nell Painter had earned the right to a restful retirement. Instead, at 64, she started over, chronicling that adventure in…
When voters in Wisconsin go to the polls for the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 14, Mahlon Mitchell, a career firefighter and union president, hopes to pull out a…