EditorialThe tap dancer Ja’Bowen performs at the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station in New York, March 19, 2023. (Angelo Silvio Vasta/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialCrystal Lucas-Perry, center, as an incarnation of Blackness who bursts onto the stage wearing a quilt, in “Ain’t No Mo’,” at the Belasco Theater in New York, Nov. 18, 2022. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)