EditorialClassical Theater of Harlem’s presentation of Melvin Van Peebles’s Tony-nominated “Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death” on opening night in New York on Oct. 1, 2004, a show Paul Carter Harrison helped conceive. Paul Carter Harrison, a playwright and scholar who in books, essays and award-winning plays provided a theoretical structure for Black performing arts, linking works by writers like August Wilson to a deeply rooted structure of African ritual and myth, died on Dec. 27, 2021 at a retirement home in Atlanta. He was 85. His daughter, Fonteyn Harrison, confirmed the death but said the cause had not been determined. (Michael Nagle/The New York Times)
EditorialAltenburg Affected by the Flood Walking Tour Through the Federal Chancellor and Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - 03 Sep 2021
EditorialTed Freeman-Atwood, 90, sits outside of Nisbit Lodge, his long-term retirement home in Toronto, Canada on Friday, June 11, 2021. (Tara Walton/The New York Times)
EditorialKristina Berning, center, and her sisters Celine, left, and Michelle visit with Ellie, a cow that Kristina brought from her father’s dairy farm to Hof Butenland, an ex-dairy farm that’s become a farm animal retirement home and symbol of veganism and coexistence of people and animals, in Butjadingen, Germany, June 12, 2021. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)
EditorialItaly: A YEAR WITH THE CORONAVIRUS - From the first case in Codogno, the red areas, Lockdown in Milan, a deserted city, people at the balconies, intensive care, queues at supermarkets and at the station, demonstrations, tampons and vaccines
EditorialDeyneca Rafael is accompanied by her daughter Daleyza, 6, as she votes at a polling place set up inside a tent on the grounds of Culpepper Garden, a retirement home in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (Alyssa Schukar/The New York Times)
EditorialItaly: Paramedics near the windows of the private retirement home for the elderly Pius XII in Portici where, in the past few hours, 57 infections from Coronavirus COVID 19 have been recorded among guests and employees.
EditorialGreg Guinard visits his mother, Laurel Witting, on Mother’s Day at her retirement home in Island Park, N.Y., May 10, 2020. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)