At Romeo and Milka Regalli’s Crown Heights restaurant, vegan proteins stand in for meats, and tangy, fermented injera soaks up sauces spiked with traditional berbere spice or puckery lime.

The outdoor exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park includes Jeffrey Gibson’s kaleidoscopic ziggurat “Because Once You Enter My House, It Becomes Our House,” performances by indigenous American artists, and more.

The civil-rights leader, who died Friday, acknowledged the darkest chapters of the country’s history, yet insisted that change was always possible.

Borjas left behind a community of transgender women and countless L.G.B.T.-rights activists who looked to her for guidance, inspiration, and love. 

Newspapers that mention the Cook bill at all tend to treat it as a quixotic oddity. Most people do not know that it exists, and some legislators have professed not to have heard of it.

From 1967: Seven months after the death of the Black writer, Professor James P. Shenton acknowledged at a memorial, “For a while, there lived a poet down the street from Columbia, and Columbia never took the time to find out what he was about.”

A new kind of movement found its moment. What will its future be?

How a scientist known as the “father of global warming” watched his dire predictions for the planet come true.

The man who warned America about AIDS can’t stop fighting hard—and loudly.

An encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure.

“The people had done it so many times that they only half listened to the directions; most of them were quiet, wetting their lips, not looking around.”

From 2014: How the labor leader disserved his dream.

From 2013: The writer had a dazzling intelligence and was once the best-read woman in America, but a public hungry for transgressive heroines has failed to embrace her.

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