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Ibram X. Kendi is ready to introduce kids to Malcolm X: ‘Racism is worse in times of tragedy’

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On the Shelf Malcolm Lives!: The Official Biography of Malcolm X for Young Readers By Ibram X. KendiFarrar, Straus & Giroux: 400 pages, $20If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. At a time when the federal government is conducting a radical erasure … Read more

For beloved conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, a final bow from the podium

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San Francisco — San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie had declared it Michael Tilson Thomas Day. City Hall glowed MTT’s trademark blue. Davies Symphony Hall, where Tilson Thomas presided over the San Francisco Symphony for an influential quarter century, was festooned with giant blue balloons. For Tilson Thomas, it all was the culmination of what he declared … Read more