EditorialDr. Abhash Thakur, the sole cardiologist at Greenwood Leflore Hospital, in Greenwood, Miss. on Feb. 16, 2023. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialThe singer and guitarist Syl Johnson, left, performs in Brooklyn on Nov. 13, 2009. Johnson, a Chicago soul singer and guitarist who built a cult following for his raw sound on 1960s songs like “Is It Because I’m Black” and, decades later, was heavily sampled by rappers, died on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022, in Mableton, Ga., at the home of one of his daughters. He was 85. The cause was congestive heart failure, his daughter Syleecia Thompson said. (Piotr Redlinski/The New York Times)