EditorialClockwise from top left: a statue of Ida B. Wells; a Jim Crow-era sign ordering Black people to the back of the bus; a candle holder depicting the abolitionist John Brown; a bust of Paul Robeson, the performer and activist; a whip used during slavery;? a World Ambassador award given to the Harlem Globetrotters. (DeSean McClinton-Holland/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Busselton Jetty in Australia, which is over one mile long and is the longest timber-piled jetty in the southern hemisphere, on May 17, 2021. (Dion Robeson/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Busselton Jetty in Australia, which is over one mile long and is the longest timber-piled jetty in the southern hemisphere, on May 17, 2021. (Dion Robeson/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo provided by the Robeson County Sheriff's Office shows Dejywan Floyd, 29, of Lumberton, N.C. (Robeson County Sheriff's Office via The New York Times)
EditorialA park ranger plants a sign touting WiFi access at the Lumber River State Park in Orrum, N.C., Oct. 29, 2020. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialMaterials that are part of the vast archive of Harry Belafonte, which have been acquired by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, in New York, Feb. 21, 2020. (James Estrin/The New York Times)
EditorialIn memory of Helen Stanford Taylor, who, in her eighteenth year, passed from earthly being on the evening of the third day of June, nineteen hundred : Taylor, Edward Robeson, 1838-1923.