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Once people reach a certain level of notoriety, their lives change in ways they often don’t expect, including a loss of privacy. For Ta-Nehisi Coates, author and journalist for The Atlantic, these problems have forced him to choose to not move into a property he purchased. According to the New York Times, Coates and his wife were looking to […]

The following piece is from Vanity Fair. It was written by Beverly Johnson. By: Beverly Johnson Like most Americans, I spent the 60s, 70s, and part of the 80s in awe of Bill Cosby and his total domination of popular culture. He was the first African American to star in a dramatic television series, I Spy, […]

This story originally appeared in the New York Times. By: Andrea Elliot She wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet. […]