Watch Kelly Rowland Play an ’80s Pop Star in ‘Bad Hair’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Yes, the writer and director Justin Simien’s new horror movie, “Bad Hair,” is about a killer weave. But it makes time to bathe not only in blood, but also in nostalgia.
The movie (streaming on Hulu) is set in 1989 and follows Anna (Elle Lorraine), an employee at a Black music network called Culture TV. In this scene, one of Culture’s shows is introducing an exclusive new music video for the song “I Get It,” by the pop star Sandra. That musician is played by Kelly Rowland, who performs vocals for the song (written by Simien). While Anna and her co-workers watch the video on a monitor on set, they are struck by Sandra’s latest look, a new flowing weave that bounces with each beat.
The scene cuts between the action in the Culture studio and the music video itself, a throwback to Janet Jackson-style pop aesthetics and a tribute to the new jack swing music style.
In his narration, Simien discusses what it took to recreate the look of an ’80s music video and how he ensured the camerawork matched the buoyant choreography.
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October 23, 2020
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Megan Thee Stallion: Why I Speak Up for Black Women | NYT Opinion
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October 20, 2020
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This U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet. Here’s Why. | 2020 Elections
With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
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October 19, 2020
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Watch Sacha Baron Cohen Get Serious in ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ | Anatomy of a Scene
Aaron Sorkin knows his way around courtroom drama theatrics. His script (adapted from his Broadway play) for the 1992 Tom Cruise-Jack Nicholson verbal slugfest “A Few Good Men,” did not shy away from gavel-banging razzmatazz. He returns to court with the docudrama “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (streaming on Netflix), which he wrote and directed.
The trial of the title involves several antiwar activists (played by several Oscar and Emmy winners) who were accused of conspiring to cause riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
The trial itself was a carnival of sometimes funny, sometimes shocking moments, which Sorkin depicts. But this scene, featuring the testimony of the usually more jokey agitator Abbie Hoffman (played by the usually more jokey Sacha Baron Cohen), turns down the volume and gives the court more of the order its judge (Frank Langella) has been seeking throughout the film.
It’s the film’s final trial scene, but it’s handled differently than usual. Narrating this video, Sorkin explains why he went in a quieter, more straightforward direction, and why all eyes were on Cohen in interpreting its tone in his performance.
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October 16, 2020
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How a U.S. Task Force Killed a Wanted Antifa Activist
President Trump praised the killing of Michael Reinoehl, suspected of fatally shooting a far-right protester, as “retribution.” Our investigation found that officers may have shot without warning or seeing a gun.
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October 13, 2020
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What's the Problem With Vote-by-Mail? | 2020 Elections
The second episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on vote-by-mail, which has become one of the most contentious issues of the 2020 election. In Michigan, a state decided by fewer than 11,000 votes in 2016, a group of bipartisan election officials worry they won’t have the time or resources to ensure results on election night.
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October 12, 2020
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How Julie Taymor Brings Visual Flair to ‘The Glorias’ | Anatomy of a Scene
When an interviewer poses a sexist question to Gloria Steinem in the biopic about her life, a giant red tornado sweeps him away.
Or at least it does in Steinem’s thoughts. That sequence is one of a few moments of fanciful abandon in “The Glorias,” Julie Taymor’s drama that casts four actresses to play the feminist activist.
The scene begins during a television interview, with Alicia Vikander playing Gloria. But when the interviewer (Michael Lowry) says to her, “I hope you’ll forgive our masculine notion that you are an absolutely stunning sex object,” the casting of Gloria changes in the middle of the interview to Julianne Moore, then leads into the fantasy sequence of her response.
“I allow the whimsy of her imagination to say what she would say, could she say it,” Taymor said in an interview.
In this video, Taymor further explains the scene and how she put it together, from creative costuming (by Sandy Powell) to a sweeping score (by Elliot Goldenthal). And she discusses filming her performers on wires over green screen that would combine with visual effects into a sequence that pays tribute to both “The Wizard of Oz” and “Macbeth.”
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October 02, 2020
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How America Bungled the Plague | NYT Opinion
A year ago, the United States was regarded as the country best prepared for a pandemic. Our government had spent nearly two decades strategizing for a doomsday scenario. So what went wrong?
How is it that America, which wrote the global playbook for pandemic response, accounts for just 4 percent of the world’s population yet more than 20 percent of the world’s coronavirus deaths?
One of the most important functions of journalism is to provide accountability, so in the video above, Johnny Harris dives deep into an exploration of what went wrong and when, and who’s to blame and why.
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September 29, 2020
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Why Voting in This U.S. Election Will Not Be Equal | 2020 Elections
The first episode of our four-part series, Stressed Election, focuses on voter suppression in Georgia, where a growing Black and Latino population is on the precipice of exercising its political voice, if they get the chance to vote.
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September 28, 2020
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I'm Not Alone. I Have My Cats. | Op-Docs
In Lasse Linder's "All Cats are Gray in the Dark," we enter the world of an older man living by himself in a small city in Austria. Only he’s not alone — he has his two Scottish Fold cats, Marmelade and Katyusha. The cats accompany him everywhere: to the bar, to the grocery store, to the ski slopes. As we watch their relationship unfold, the trio builds a world that’s exclusively and intimately theirs alone — a reminder that families are whatever we make them out to be. All that defines them is love.
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September 16, 2020
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I’m Trying to Topple Europe’s Last Dictator | NYT Opinion
In the video Op-Ed above, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya tells the story of her improbable rise from stay-at-home mom to revolutionary icon. She reluctantly became the figurehead of the Belarusian opposition movement after her husband was thrown in jail for daring to challenge Europe’s last dictator.
Belarus has been ruled by the same man, Alexander Lukashenko, since 1994. Over the past 26 years, he has violently suppressed many who challenged his rule — jailing opposition candidates or driving them into exile. So Belarusians were unsurprised when the pattern began to repeat in 2020 — democracy was being subverted once again.
But the unlikely has happened. After rallying behind Ms. Tikhanovskaya, widely believed to be the true victor of the August elections, hundreds of thousands of Belarusians have gathered in protest to make it clear they’ve had enough of Lukashenko — and they aren’t backing down.
Could this unlikely hero be bringing an end to his tyrannical rule?
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September 23, 2020
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How an Oregon Wildfire Became One of the Most Destructive | Visual Investigations
The Almeda fire left a path of destruction as it tore through the Rogue Valley in southern Oregon. About 24 hours after it started, an estimated 2,350 homes had been left in ashes. We used satellite images, videos and social media posts to track what happened.
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September 21, 2020
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Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg | NYT News
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court’s feminist icon, not only changed the law, she also transformed the roles of men and women in society, according to Linda Greenhouse, contributing writer and former Supreme Court Correspondent for The Times.
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September 18, 2020
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How Tom Holland Seeks Revenge in ‘The Devil All the Time’ | Anatomy of a Scene
“You got time for a sinner?”
That line from the vengeance-seeking Arvin Russell (Tom Holland) is delivered with a sense of both weariness and foreboding. The weight of tortured souls confronting evil from all corners is at the heart of “The Devil All the Time,” the period drama that also stars Robert Pattinson as a not-so-faithful preacher.
Antonio Campos directed the Netflix film and, in this video, walks us through a scene that begins like confession but gives way to threats of retribution. The components are simple: two characters, a church and a gun. But those spare elements lead to an extended scene of both quiet nuance and sustained tension.
Campos talks about the challenges of pulling the scene off, both in the performances and in the assembling process. His editor, Sofía Subercaseaux, is also his wife, and he says they worked on this scene, on and off, for nine months to get it right.
He also discusses how sound design played a role in portraying a character’s nervousness (amplifying the clank of the shaking gun) and how certain camera angles help to tell the story from individual characters’ perspectives.
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September 17, 2020
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When Talking to Aliens Is Your Religion | Op-Docs
In the mid-1950s, an English taxi driver named George King claimed that he had received a directive from outer space. The dispatch spurred him to establish the Aetherius Society, a religious group that believes communicating and working with aliens will better humanity. Though unconventional, the group’s practices aren’t dangerous or hateful; they often mirror those of more established religions, with an extraterrestrial twist.
In Annalise Pasztor's "Gods From Space," members of the Aetherius Society explain their mission of peace and their unique prayer method in times of crisis. We don’t know how many people this group comprises overall, but with 35 centers across five continents, it’s a small international community bonded by the belief that the earth needs extraterrestrial support to survive.
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September 14, 2020
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Why You Should Care About TikTok | NYT Opinion
Maybe you first learned about TikTok when your kids tried to teach you the Toosie Slide, or when you came across a kinetic Charli D’Amelio video that got millions of likes. Or was it when your nephew started a small fire because of the “outlet challenge?” In any case, you’ve definitely heard that President Trump was intent on banning it and forced it to make a deal with an American company. But who really cares about an app — used mostly by Gen Z?
You, for one, should.
In the video Op-Ed above, a group of highly influential TikTokers from around the country, with followers in the millions, demonstrate that the platform is more than cringy video for and by teenagers. It’s the most downloaded app and nearly 100 million Americans use it for a range of things — like political organizing and learning about beekeeping — and even boomers and educators are on the app. It’s also just fun.
Like any social media platform, we should keep an eye on it. But that doesn’t mean this one app should be targeted — if anything, we should be paying closer attention to other companies, like Facebook.
Even if you still don’t care about what’s happening with TikTok, you should be worried about what could be next.
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September 14, 2020
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This Doctor Wants to Humanize Death | Op-Docs
If losing a child to an illness is one of the worst things that can happen to a family, Dr. Nadia Tremonti has made it her mission to make it better.
It’s not easy. But as a pediatric palliative care physician, she works to ensure that terminally ill children receive quality end-of-life care. Palliative care is sometimes misunderstood to shorten life expectancy, but it’s a method that increases quality of life, improves symptom burden and decreases medical costs. We follow Dr. Tremonti in John Beder's "Dying in Your Mother's Arms" as she works to make death less medical and more human. In the process she asks a critical question: When a child is terminally ill, how can we make the end of life a better one?
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September 10, 2020
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How Sam Hunt Makes a Country Hit: Hip-Hop and 1950s Honky-Tonk | Diary of a Song
The Nashville boundary-pusher Sam Hunt and five all-star collaborators built “Hard to Forget,” his latest country radio No. 1, around a sample of Webb Pierce’s “There Stands the Glass,” from 1953. See how they made it sound modern in the latest Diary of a Song episode.
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September 10, 2020
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Why The Olympics Punished Me For Protesting | NYT Opinion
In sports arenas around the world, taking a knee is no longer taboo — it’s trending. But there’s at least one place where protesting is still not allowed.
The Olympic medal podium.
In the video Op-Ed above, the track and field Olympian Gwen Berry confronts Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, over what she feels is his organization’s hypocrisy: Olympians are celebrated for their courage, drive and tenacity. But if they are spurred by those same traits to demand racial justice? That’s a punishable offense.
On the podium at the 2019 Pan Am Games, Berry raised her fist. Then she paid for it. She was reprimanded by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and is now unsponsored. She is among the top hammer throwers in the world, but hasn’t received an athletic grant since protesting.
Berry is a Black woman without a safety net defying a global organization that brought in $165 million in profits in 2018. Yet athletes like her — who often scrape by — are faced with an impossible dilemma: keep their mouths shut or jeopardize their career to fight for justice.
Berry has fought to get to where she is today. She was raised by her grandmother in a household of 13 in Ferguson, Mo. After having a son at age 15, she earned a college scholarship and became a top hammer thrower. While training to qualify for the Olympics in 2016, she held down two jobs — working at Dick’s Sporting Goods during the day and delivering Insomnia Cookies at night — and helped support 10 extended-family members back home.
Last month, Team USA formed a council to make recommendations on race and social justice. But Berry says as long as free speech is censored, volunteer committees are not enough.
As for what she really wants? You’ll have to hear it from her in the video above.
This time, she won’t be silenced.
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September 04, 2020
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How ‘Mulan’ Goes to Battle | Anatomy of a Scene
For the live-action film “Mulan,” putting together a sequence where an avalanche drives back an army was no big deal. It only required two years of preparation, multiple location scouts, intense horse training and a cast of more than 80 Mongolian and Kazakh trick riders. In other words, a cinch.
Niki Caro, the director of the anticipated film (finally on a home screen near you via Disney+), worked tirelessly with a large team of crew and cast to pull off a sequence many will remember from the animated version. But the new scenes have some narrative updates.
In this video, she discusses the moment when Mulan (played by Yifei Liu) comes into her own as a warrior and uses her smarts with an assist from nature to beat back an aggressive army.
“The key for me to creating and executing a sequence of this size, scale and complexity was the collaboration of some really singular women,” Caro said. That collaboration included her cinematographer Mandy Walker, and one of her first assistant directors, Liz Tan.
They found the right location, one with multiple levels to stage a battle, in the Ahuriri Valley, on the South Island of New Zealand. In managing all of the moving parts, like extras, stunts and the use of a trebuchet to fire a real flaming cannonball, Caro said “it was like being the conductor of a really brilliant orchestra.”
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September 03, 2020
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Horror masks are never just about the monster.
Even before the coronavirus made masks a daily routine for us, they occupied a mighty space in our cultural imagination. Masks are a mainstay of horror, donned by mysterious strangers and serial killers while they terrorize innocents. The blank, lifeless visages of such classic horror masks as those belonging to Leatherface, Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers seem to signify corpses — faces stripped of their verve and individuality.
These masks also embody the unknown: the mystery of the person behind the mask, and the disconnect between what may seem otherwise mundane (an animal mask, a hockey mask) and the mask’s frightfulness when placed in a new context. But there’s something deeper to the psychology of our fear around masks, related to our worst fears about ourselves and the fragile structure of society — whether it’s in a house of cannibals in Middle of Nowhere, Texas, or in our own familiar haunts during a time of pandemic.
With masks, it is never about the monster but the man whose mask obscures and reveals him, writes Maya Phillips, the arts critic fellow at The New York Times.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about how these cinematic mainstays continue to terrify. Photos by @trevorwisecup, @danieldorsa, @landonnordeman, @jingyulin_, @yael_malka and @caitoppermann, @djdumpling and @bradogbonna.
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Singer, songwriter, dancer and producer @FKATwigs has not only impeccable taste, but also a monastic devotion to her creative training. On her first album, “LP1,” released in 2014, she innovated the ’90s-era R&B slow jam by blending trip-hop’s glitchy timing and industrial distortion with Kate Bush’s high-pitched pop.
Growing up in Cheltenham, a predominantly middle-class town in the southwest of England, she studied opera and ballet and performed in youth groups, dance competitions and jazz combos. She excelled in these areas, despite and because of how acutely she felt her otherness, as a mixed-race kid in a very white area.
Her second full-length album, 2019’s “Magdalene,” is a quiet, searching response to rejection colored by disbelief: What begins as a relationship autopsy turns subtly from past tense to present. The lead single, “Cellophane,” was a heartbreaking look at her heavily publicized breakup with the British actor Robert Pattinson. Still, the recording was so abject, and in that way so different from her typical high-concept art-pop, that she had to laugh at herself. Envisioning the video, her first thought was: “I should just be a sad stripper.”
Perhaps no other pop star delves inside as deeply while stretching so far out — plumbing the interior, sometimes from a wry distance, while making her own body a spectacular work of art.
Tap the link in our bio to read our profile on Twigs. Photo for @tmagazine by @lizjohnsonartur
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In the final home stretch before the election, President Trump and Joe Biden spent the day campaigning in battleground states on Saturday, presenting sharply divergent cases, both in words and actions, for how they would handle the pandemic still gripping the country.
A day after the nation hit a new high for coronavirus cases, Trump returned to the campaign trail for a series of rallies and again sought to minimize the surging pandemic, mocking his rival for following the social-distancing recommendations of public health officials. In the face of spiking numbers, Trump continued to lean into the idea that the news media and his critics were obsessing about the virus, even as polls show widespread public concern.
“That’s all I hear about now,” Trump said at a campaign event in Lumberton, North Carolina “That’s all I hear, turn on television: Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,” he added, a refrain he recited in the state as well on Wednesday.
Making 2 stops in the key battleground of Pennsylvania on Saturday, Biden cited the milestone in cases and criticized Trump for asserting that the country was “rounding the corner” as cases spike.
“You’re asking us to learn how to die with it, and it’s wrong,” Biden said at a drive-in rally in the Philadelphia suburbs, recalling his exchange with Trump on the subject at the debate on Thursday. He added that there was “going to be a dark winter ahead unless we change our ways.”
Tap the link in our bio for the latest from the campaign trail. Photos by @erinschaff and @anna.money.
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As fall’s vibrant, showy display begins, the wild meadow and woodlands at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are finally coming into their own.
Botanical gardens have long represented an ideal of nature civilized, clipped and classified. @brooklynbotanic hasn’t discarded taxonomic collecting or spectacular floral displays — but has steadily brought more of an ecological ethos to its intimate 52 acres.
In doing so, it has transitioned from a specimen collection to an immersive experience with dense ecological habitats. The new plant groupings are comparatively disorderly, host insects and birds, and change constantly with flowers, seed pods, and leaf colors constantly popping and fading. Tap the link in our bio to see more. Photo by @george_etheredge.
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Countries in the Caribbean and Latin America are counting on their relative proximity to the U.S. (meaning short flights) and appeal as outdoor destinations (meaning social distancing) to restart tourism.
Most of the newly reopened destinations are requiring visitors to show negative coronavirus test results before entry. That has airlines, as well as airport-based testing services, jumping in: American Airlines announced that it will offer preflight testing for travelers bound to the Bahamas, Costa Rica and Jamaica from some airports beginning this month.
If testing is not enough to reassure tourists, the countries are using tactics like restricting visitor numbers, limiting where they can go and requiring medical insurance.
The gradual approach reflects a lesson learned over the summer when the Bahamas reopened, only to backtrack as coronavirus cases spiked. Other destinations in the region are taking a piecemeal approach, including Curacao, which recently allowed in American travelers from Florida, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut only. Still others, like the Cayman Islands have not announced dates for restarting leisure travel.
Read more from @nytimestravel on how 5 tropical countries are handling reopening at the link in our bio. Photo by @morismoreno
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Who knew an 84-year-old frankfurter could spark delight during a pandemic?
The current Wienermobile fleet has been delivering its brand message across America since 1987. It has survived through mergers and acquisitions, even through the belt tightening of its investors. But, this year, disaster struck as the pandemic put a halt to the famous traveling show. Oscar Mayer pulled its fleet of 6 Wienermobiles off the road. Now, they are back with some changes.
Leaders at the company plotted new routes. They loaded up on personal protective equipment for drivers and visitors and created signage to encourage social distancing. They added instructions to the Hot Dog High training program, like how to follow federal health guidelines and how to complete daily wellness checks. This year, the Hotdoggers are spending about 2 weeks in each place. They hope that staying in one spot longer will lessen the likelihood of potentially spreading the coronavirus. And they now tend to visit places with relatively low counts of coronavirus cases.
The original Wienermobile made its debut in 1936, when the country was still reeling from the Great Depression. Molly Swindall (4th photo), who commandeers one of the newer sleek dogs, said enthusiasts will drive for hours to witness the wurst in all its glory. One woman drove 12 hours — one way — just to see it. “She was a fan of the Wienermobile growing up, and she was just so excited,” Swindall said. “As we were leaving she goes, ‘This is the best day of my life. And I’ve been married.’”
Tap the link in our bio to read more about the famous traveling hot dog. Photo by @cassidy_araiza.
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Has Anna Wintour’s diversity push come too late?
For decades, Vogue welcomed a certain type of employee — someone who is thin and white, typically from a wealthy family and educated at elite schools, according to 18 people who spoke to The Times. Black journalists who have worked with Wintour, the Vogue editor in chief since 1988, speaking on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution, said they had not gotten over their experiences at a magazine whose workplace mirrored its exclusive pages.
Many Condé Nast employees interviewed by The Times said the racism they encountered was usually subtle, but sometimes blunt. Their main accusation was that Wintour created a work environment that sidelined and tokenized women of color, especially Black women.
“Fashion is bitchy,” one former Black staff member said. “It’s hard. This is the way it’s supposed to be. But at Vogue, when we’d evaluate a shoot or a look, we’d say ‘That’s Vogue,’ or, ‘That’s not Vogue,’ and what that really meant was ‘thin, rich and white.’ How do you work in that environment?”
The recent tumult at Condé Nast has knocked Wintour off balance. Inspired by the protests that arose after the police killing of George Floyd in May, employees have confronted their bosses at companywide meetings and in smaller gatherings. Now many Black current and former staffers say she should no longer be in charge of Vogue and should give up her post as Condé Nast’s editorial leader.
Some Black editors did not want to comment on the experience of fellow colleagues, but 3 people of color said Condé Nast had made positive changes and Wintour had promoted them to top roles. And Naomi Campbell, one of the first Black supermodels who was on the cover of Wintour’s first September issue in 1989, vehemently defended the editor. “She’s been a very important factor in my career and my life and has been honest about what she can do and what she cannot,” Campbell said.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about Wintour and the racial reckoning at Condé Nast. Photo by @lizlippphoto.
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A #MeToo awakening is stirring Iran.
Three years after the global movement took off, women are increasingly going public about sexual assault. One of the most prominent men to be accused is Aydin Aghdashloo, an internationally acclaimed artist with ties to the ruling elite.
The Times interviewed former students of Aghdashloo’s after an Iranian journalist now living in the U.S., Sara Omatali, posted on Twitter on Aug. 22 that he had sexually assaulted her in 2006 when she visited to interview him. Her account appeared to be the catalyst for others to come forward.
In telephone interviews, 45 people — including a longtime teaching assistant — all said Aghdashloo’s behavior had been known in art circles. Thirteen women accused him of sexual misconduct. One said she was 13 years old at the time.
Nineteen described him as the “Harvey Weinstein of Iran,” elevating or destroying careers of women depending on their receptiveness to his advances.
"I was terrified of what he could do to me and my career if I told anyone or brought charges,” said Maryam, an art photographer who asked to be identified by only her first name for this story.
Aghdashloo declined requests for an interview but strenuously denied wrongdoing, and according to his lawyer has already taken legal action against one accuser.
In recent months, women in Iran have come forward against over 100 men, some of them prominent figures. The willingness by women who say they were victims to share their stories more openly is a groundbreaking shift in Iran’s conservative society, where discussing sex is culturally prohibited, sex outside marriage is illegal and the burden of proof for victims of sexual crimes is onerous. A raped woman often gets the blame.
“This is a turning point for sexual abuse, the biggest taboo for women in Iran has been sex and sexual violence and abuse,” said a member of an advocacy group in Tehran.
Tap the links in our bio to read our story in English and Persian. Photo by @sandy_huffaker.
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It’s soup season, and @itsalislagle's stellar soup is reviving and cozy, made in one pot, and ready in 30 minutes. It starts with ginger-scented chicken-cilantro meatballs that are browned, then simmered in a fragrant coconut milk broth that’s inspired by tom kha gai, a Thai chicken-coconut soup seasoned with lemongrass, galangal, makrut lime leaves and chile. A heap of spinach is added for color and flavor, and a squeeze of lime adds brightness and punch. The soup is brothy, so serve it over rice or another grain to make it a full meal. Tap the link in our bio for the full recipe from @nytcooking. Photo by @johnny_miller_, with food styling by @susanspungen
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Mining for crystals has become a pretty big business. At pay-to-dig mines around the U.S., visitors can paw through piles of mine tailings to uncover crystals and gemstones on “finders, keepers” terms for as little as $10 a day.
At Herkimer Diamond Mines in central New York, home to an especially clear and unusually hard type of quartz crystal known as the Herkimer diamond, a $14 admission price includes a day of prospecting and the rental of a rock hammer.
In a typical year, one-fifth of the mine’s customers are international tourists, so when the pandemic halted travel and delayed the start of this year’s April-to-November digging season, the mine’s proprietor, Renée Scialdo Shevat, worried about what the loss in revenue may do to the 40-year-old family business.
By late summer, she was more concerned with how to limit the crowds. Diggers of all ages and degrees of seriousness had begun arriving in droves. “These days, every day is like a Saturday,” Shevat said in early September.
Tap the link in our bio to read how some modern-day prospectors are making thousands of dollars selling precious stones they dug up themselves. Photos by @vnina
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With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
Read the full story here.
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With 11 days to go until Election Day, more voters have already cast early ballots than did during the entire early-voting period in 2016. More than 50 million people so far have decided not to wait until Nov. 3 to vote.
The early-voting turnout, which combines mail-in ballots already received and early in-person voting, passed the 2016 mark of 47.1 million on Thursday, according to the U.S. Elections Project, which tracks state-by-state data.
The sky-high totals come despite a mess of glitches and hourslong lines that have plagued early voting across the country. Still, voters say they’ve been energized by what many consider the most consequential election of their lifetimes. Several 2020-specific factors are also at play. Some voters say they want to avoid coronavirus risks in the long lines of Election Day, while some Trump supporters have opted for early in-person voting as a result of President Trump’s assertions that mail-in balloting is insecure (though voter fraud is extremely rare).
As expected, the early voters have leaned heavily Democratic. Of those who have voted so far, 50.6% are registered Democrats, 26.6% are Republicans and 22.2% are unaffiliated, according to the U.S. Elections Project.
The nationwide early turnout represents 36.5% of the total turnout in 2016. Some states, like Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Vermont, are reporting higher totals. Early voting has not yet begun in other states, including New York, which begins the process on Saturday.
Tap the link in our bio to read more about early voting across the U.S.
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