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...Rothko Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (to April 2) Paris’s second trump card is its lavish private museums, led by Bernard Arnault’s Fondation Louis Vuitton in Frank Gehry’s irresistible cloudscape building...
...A couple of years ago, I received a phone call from Henry Louis Gates Jr, director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard (and a friend), telling me that he had just...
...You know what I mean, where you’re this is, you know, a lot of the stuff is, you know, pre-George Floyd where, like, we have a movement right now where people can at least try to talk about it or try, you...
...Guston saw the original pictures in St Louis and they haunted him for the rest of his life....
...White friends called me up [after Floyd’s murder] to ask if I was OK....
...Jill Louis rarely calls US vice-president Kamala Harris by her official title. She has another name for Ms Harris — soror....
..., and the murder in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, a police officer, in 2020....
...That truism was made vivid last week as US television broadcast live the trial of a white policeman accused of murdering George Floyd, a black man whose death last May set off the biggest US anti-racism...
...In a year that brought the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, telling black stories has never been more important....
...Lydia Marie Hicks tells me how Lela G Wilson named some of the streets here for black cities that she hoped people would visit Idlewild from — Chicago, St Louis, Tampa....
...During his 2006 election battle, he apologised for and disavowed his past association as a student with the Nation of Islam and support for its leader, Louis Farrakhan, who has made anti-Semitic comments...
...When George Floyd was killed, another Floyd, boxer Floyd Mayweather, paid for his burial in a gold casket. Fordjour has painted a man killed like a dog, leaving earth like a king....
...Four police officers were shot in St Louis, Missouri, as authorities struggled to regain control of the city’s streets late into Monday evening....
...So far, one retired police captain has been killed in St Louis, while several protesters have been killed or maimed by the police....
...The death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in Minneapolis by a white police officer who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes, has drawn global attention to the seemingly never-ending, violent...
...Dozens of luxury companies posted messages of support on social media for the Black Lives Matter movement following the police killing of African-American George Floyd in May....
...The pair became conservative celebrities after the gun-pointing incident — which took place during the protests over the death of Mr Floyd — went viral....
...Included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, “Jenny and Louis” (2020) shows a white couple, casually dressed, arms around each other, their smiles exuding innocent bonhomie....
...(FT) Wisconsin police shooting The wounding of a black man on Sunday has sparked protests and revived calls for sweeping law enforcement reform just three months after George Floyd was killed....
...Ironically, particular criticism has fallen on Virgil Abloh, founder of Off-White and menswear creative director of Louis Vuitton, and one of fashion’s few black lead designers....
...In a September 1960 telegram, UMHK’s Louis Wallef wrote to a colleague about the need for “someone” — clearly Lumumba — to “disappear”....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Exclusive: James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, has told the Financial Times that a wave of business failures owing to the pandemic could still trigger...
...According to sources, members of the board of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton called a meeting in Paris Tuesday night specifically to discuss the matter amid a deteriorating situation in the U.S. market...
...My own fortune was eaten up in commission, tax, holidays, a deposit on a house, guitars and a ridiculous gilded Louis XV lit de mariage bed my wife bought while I was on tour in Japan....
...James Baldwin covered Floyd Patterson’s 1962 fight with Sonny Liston....
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