EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer, right, gives a bivalent booster shot to Ethel Brown at a nursing home in Riverdale, N.Y., Sept. 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Ray Fisher, Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Michael Potts in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Potts in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Manhattan, Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialSamuel L. Jackson, left, and John David Washington in August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Michael Potts, John David Washington and Danielle Brooks in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Manhattan, Sept. 19, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialThe actor and director LaTanya Richardson Jackson at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York on Sept. 29, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer administers the new covid booster shot for Ethel Brown at Riverdale nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialHolly Fulmer administers the new covid booster shot for Ethel Brown at Riverdale nursing home in the Bronx borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept 14, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialAlice Feiring, left, at a farmer’s market with her boyfriend Peter Zanger and mother Ethel Feiring, in Kings Point, N.Y., July 17, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialEthel Stamper, 94, and her daughter-in-law Shirley Stamper rest as they wait for Ethel’s blood pressure and diabetes medications at Gospel Light Baptist Church in Hazard, Ky., July 29, 2022. (Austin Anthony/The New York Times)
EditorialEthel Cain in Daleville, Ala., ahead of the release of her debut album, ?Preacher?s Daughter," on April 27, 2022. (Irina Rozovsky/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Sophie Okonedo, Denzel Washington, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Bryce Clyde Jenkins and Anika Noni Rose in the play "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York, March 29, 2014. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialA nursing student instructs first graders at Ethel Phillips Elementary School in Sacramento, Calif., on how to properly wash their hands to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, on Friday, March 13, 2020. (Max Whittaker/The New York Times)