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‘We Have No Practice Talking About Race in This Country.’ Claudia Rankine on White Privilege and Her New Play Help New York City

‘We Have No Practice Talking About Race in This Country.’ Claudia Rankine on White Privilege and Her New Play Help

On a February afternoon at the Manhattan arts complex The Shed, 19 white men are practicing an interpretive dance sequence on rolling chairs. In between takes, they are at ease; they playfully slide off their chairs, manspread, roll around in circles, drum absent-mindedly on their knees. But no such repose…
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March 6, 2020
We went inside a New York City ‘nano-warehouse’ that’s being pitched as a solution to e-commerce logistics nightmares — here’s what we saw New York City

We went inside a New York City ‘nano-warehouse’ that’s being pitched as a solution to e-commerce logistics nightmares — here’s what we saw

Alex Nicoll/Business Insider This story is available exclusively on Business Insider Prime. Join BI Prime and start reading now. With rising demand for e-commerce, small warehouses near city centers are now highly sought after real estate.Bond, a logistics startup, has opened six "nano-warehouses" across New York City, turning vacant retail space…
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March 5, 2020
1954: Marilyn Monroe New York City

1954: Marilyn Monroe

In 1954, Marilyn Monroe—already a sex symbol and a movie star—posed on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 52nd Street in New York City, for a scene intended to appear in her 1955 film The Seven Year Itch. The breeze blowing up through a subway grate sent her white dress…
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March 5, 2020
A New York City man wasn’t tested for coronavirus even though he had symptoms and had gone to Japan. It highlights the troublingly limited scope of US testing. New York City

A New York City man wasn’t tested for coronavirus even though he had symptoms and had gone to Japan. It highlights the troublingly limited scope of US testing.

A resident of Brooklyn, New York, went to the emergency room with a fever and cough on Thursday. He'd just returned from Japan, where more than 200 people have the new coronavirus.His case was not "of concern" based on the official criteria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…
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March 3, 2020
Buh-Bye, Plastic Bags! New York City

Buh-Bye, Plastic Bags!

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March 2, 2020