Natalie Meade

A Memphis tradition, the diving style known as slicing requires creativity, athleticism, and a lot of swagger.

Ayite, who is in her late thirties, wore a faux-leather shirt and matching pants with rose chrome Nikes. “In sixth grade, I was chosen to play Scrooge in ‘A Christmas Carol,’ and I had to put together my own top hat,” she said. “That’s technically my first costume design.” “X,” which is directed by Robert O’Hara, is her Met début. It utilizes around three hundred and fifty costumes, some of which she pointed out in the wardrobe area; she described others in a phone call later. Ayite was born and…

Bioh, who is forty, wore a hunter-green sweater dress and an easy smile. She grew up in Washington Heights, the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants who had high aspirations for their children. “Doctor, lawyer, or schoolteacher, engineer, honorable mention maybe to government official,” she said. “Those are the big professions that were drilled as markers of American success.” Instead, Bioh took dance classes at a local community center, hoping to make it on the sketch show “In Living Color.” “I thou…

In Juliana Kasumu’s documentary about a New Orleans hairdresser, the “big chop” is far more meaningful than the average trip to the salon.

If you attend their pop-up film series “Shouting at the Screen,” prepare to take a drink every time a pimp suit appears onscreen.

The satire takes aim not only at New Yorkers’ special relationship to the housing market but also at influencer culture: the now familiar mode of using social media to commodify the intimate details of one’s life for clout or ad dollars. We never learn how many followers the Artist has, but with her stylish self-possession and effortless way of packaging her experience—“I really couldn’t imagine going anywhere else, you know? I needed to be here, you know, with, like, people like me,” she tells…

Opening its borders to American tourists puts the country’s population at risk.

The elaborate nail stylings made popular by Black women have been both derided and appropriated; in a new documentary, they’re honored as art.

As governments and aid groups struggle to help the islands recover from the hurricane, residents have used Twitter and Facebook to coördinate rescues and raise money.

Why the Irish holiday is celebrated on a Caribbean island.

In restoring a neglected corner of the Brooklyn cemetery, students found fragments of information about life in nineteenth-century New York.

The memoir is a vociferous, moving firsthand account of Mandela’s strength in the face of abuse, and an enduring tribute to a beacon of the anti-apartheid movement.

The poorest countries in the world, including those in the Caribbean, emit about one-fifth of global carbon emissions, yet they are the most susceptible to the effects of climate change.

The artist has reached a new career height with his album “KOD.”

Five months after Irma devastated the Caribbean island, residents are trying to overcome indifferent public officials and weak tourism.

Dominica’s Prime Minister called on the U.N. to address the warmer temperatures that are fuelling massive storms and battering his region’s forty million people.

A resident of the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Irma, describes the storm and its aftermath.