But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try.
Anyone who took a class with me at university would probably be surprised to hear I used to be a teacher’s pet. After years of being that student who always had her hand up, university left me either mute or garbling my words. My confidence — or lack of it — ultimately affected my ability to contribute, shaping my university experience for the worse. But as Mohammed Hanif points out in his piece this week, everyone in education faces their own hurdles — and that doesn’t change when classes move online. In fact, for Mohammed, it is now clearer than ever that education is a process of exclusion — some students are sharp writers blessed with a good internet connection, with a knack for filling out applications. Then … there’s everybody else. It might be nearly impossible to put yourself in another person’s shoes, but in her Sunday Review essay this week, Molly Worthen argues we can certainly try — and offers one practical solution to get us started. |
The Last Acceptable Prejudice |
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How Latinos Can Win the Culture War |
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A 2019 Opportunity Agenda report found that 25 percent of Latino immigrant TV characters were portrayed as employed, while 88 percent were represented as incarcerated or the perpetrators of crime. That’s not acceptable, and it’s about time the gatekeepers of American culture changed their ways, say Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Mónica Ramírez. |
The Three Rules of Coronavirus Communication |
Imagine living in a country where you aren’t totally confused. A country where wearing a mask isn’t contentious and trusting your government is a no-brainer. Sorry, America, but for millions around the world, that’s actually a relatively easy feat. |
The Rent Eats First, Even During a Pandemic |
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Jhon Loaiza used to twirl his daughters around their family home listening to salsa or reggaeton. Then came the pandemic and the jobs dried up. Surviving on food boxes but still unable to pay rent, Mr. Loaiza’s family was served an eviction notice. As he told Matthew Desmond, the stress of it all “snaked through his body like poison.” And then he contracted Covid-19. |
Lockdown Left My Mind and Body Flabby. Then Came Tennis Camp. |
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Live event: How Fashion Is Meeting the Moment |
On Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 10 a.m. E.T., join The New York Times’s chief fashion critic Vanessa Friedman for the first installment of our monthlong virtual event series, “On the Runway,” as she explores the global state of fashion with industry leaders including Antoine Arnault, the chief executive of Berluti; Gwyneth Paltrow, the founder of Goop; Virgil Abloh, the designer for Off-White and Louis Vuitton; and the designer Tory Burch. |
After one of the most explosive, disjointed and devastating years in a generation, how is the fashion industry holding up? How does it intend to respond to climate change, Black Lives Matter and antitrust in a pandemic-stricken world? How is fashion meeting the moment, and what does it need to do next? R.S.V.P. here. |
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