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)
EditorialThe singer and guitarist Syl Johnson at his home in Chicago on Nov. 30, 2010, the year an exhaustively researched boxed set introduced his work to a new generation. 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. (Marc PoKempner/The New York Times)
EditorialSoprano Renée Fleming and conductor Louis Langrée on opening night of the Mostly Mozart Festival, which was broadcast on “Live from Lincoln Center” in New York, July 28, 2005. (Richard Termine/The New York Times)