The machismo inherent in taking risks during a pandemic is particularly potent in Texas, where the state G.O.P. lauds “self-respect and self-reliance.”

By emphasizing the need to stop the renewed spread of the virus, Fauci is dispensing information that jibes with what experts are saying is necessary for real economic recovery.

What to wear when there’s nobody to dress up for except your cat—and Zoom.

Frank B. Wilderson III sketches a map of the world in which Black people are everywhere integral but always excluded.

In William Jersey’s 1966 documentary about the efforts of a Lutheran minister to break the racial barrier, church is “a hospital for sinners,” a place where the scourge of white supremacism must be addressed.

Wharton who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction: five letters.

The festival, now in its forty-eighth year, will stream films including Susan Misner’s “Bend” and Khadifa Wong’s “Uprooted: The Journey of Jazz Dance.”

Following in the footsteps of “Groundhog Day,” Max Barbakow’s spirited film turns a wedding into Purgatory, with bumbling speeches and so-so canapés on endless repeat.

Heath Eiden, a video producer who volunteered for Walter Mondale’s campaign as a kid, followed the “enemy-of-my-enemy” principle when he shot the new anti-Trump “Betrayed” ad.

“She couldn’t be seen walking down the street with him without damage to her reputation, a risk a teacher can’t take.”